Can You Tell The Difference Between Wired and Wireless? 3.5mm vs Bluetooth Blind Test

Plus wireless headphones/earbuds are more dangerous for the brain than wired ones. The wireless radiation is a dangerous weapon.
Read the book The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg if you want to know the truth.
Ignorance is a choice and can be deadly!

Its crazy how wireless Headphones go for like 100-150$, while wired ones go for like 30-40$ while even being a lot better than wireless ones.

I personally did a test like this as well some time ago, and im gonna be honest, I barely noticed a difference with the Music, however when watching Movies or playing Games, thats when the Audio compression from the Bluetooth Headphones really kicked in.

Transients are ruined on Bluetooth. Guitars and cymbals sound artificial.

Short answer: wired is slightly better

I have Sony XM4 and they sound much better turned on and using Wired. Bluetooth is ok, but you cannot hear all the details of the sound.

Can you run this back? Bluetooth 5.2 with aptX HD codec for the wireless.

I would be cool to do the same test again but this time try the wired headset and then wait for 3 hours and try the wireless headsets and then vice versa and see if they can still tell the difference?🤔. Cool Video👍

Sorry man this design is so flawed. The presence of the wire for the wired connection would have almost certainly influenced the result. You also need to counterbalance the order of conditions. What’s more, Bluetooth and wired connections can sometimes produce different volume levels. This would also need to be corrected. So, despite the excellent presentation, we can conclude nothing about the focal aim of identifying perceptible differences between BT and wired from this.

Riley changed teams on time, Linus sure didn't want to miss out on his scriptwriting skills

but they can feel the wires touching the skin so it's not fair comparison

HOLY SHIT REILY how times have changed.

Please don't tell me this small guy is the same Anthony of now

RIELY WHAT IS HE DOING THERE 😆

Assuming the construction etc is the same? Wired will always depend on the DAC and the codec of the source and the original quality. Wireless will rely on the already mentioned codec of the source, and the compression codec the BT uses ... but it will always be lossy and "less" cuz it's tryy to squeeze it all down the very limited BT bandwidth. BT isn't really the right technology but we are forced to use it. BT was never really designed for high data rate real time stuff. Sorry. Oh, wired head phones work with anything!

Hmm what coded? And only 1 test? There should've been 4 guesses for each person!

Absolute useless video ! Just a waste of time. What did we learn ? NOTHING

I know the batteries on headphones aren’t too beefy and I’m not familiar with this model but wouldn’t this be slightly noticeable along with the obvious lack of a cable. Should have just used a wireless headphone that had a removable auxiliary option.

I hate that wired sounds better but it does!

Wired

Who's here in 2020?

Wait why they call Riley keys

This test is obsolete now because we have qualcom aptx, aptx hd, ldac, along with new bluetooth 5.0. I guarantee it's very hard to notice a difference now.

Exactly got what I want

I thought he said Ntech. Until he got to Riley I just thought that was what he said. Then I realized the audio is hiding NCIX. Riley doesn't work for a dead company anymore.

Like the video and the humour.

Should had did surround sounds systems, they can fill the wire

Ha this will trigger all wireless users

When shopping for bluetooth headphone, I would like to know how it sounds when bluetooth is off and just use wire. This is important to me because whenever practical I would like to use the cable for the following reasons:
1. Conserve internal battery power.
2. Conserve internal battery charging capability..
3. If the sound, when wired, is as good as any wire-only headphone with similar price, then I only need one headphone for home use and for commuting.

which version of bluetooth does that wireless headset have? that plays a huge part in sound quality.

If you're using bluetooth wireless then the digital audio processing is done on the bluetooth headphones and the output is as good as your headphones (meaning with bluetooth headphones, you do not need a sound card or audio processor on your PC). If you're using 3.5mm wired, the digital audio processing is done on the sound card or the audio processor inside your PC and it is being output to the 3.5mm. In my case, my bluetooth headphones are limited to 48 Khz sampling rate at 328 kbps. While using 3.5mm fed by my PC audio processor I get 192 Khz @ 32-bits. I definitely notice the difference between bluetooth and 3.5mm wired.

Will test on my car stereo

Even a dumbass felt the wire pull... you need to have a placebo wire to the bluetooth one without signal coming through the wire.

i know for a fact wired sounds better than wireless. it sounds clear not muffled and the bass sounds better too. not stronger, but better

WHAT DO U CALL THE 3.5 HEAD PHONE JUCK

They all felt the pull of wires, bad test

Yeah, the wireless requires charging while the wired just fucking works!

Everyone has their own opinions

Dude, you were pulling the cord 🤦‍♂️

I can tell difference when I use auxiliary in my car. It sounds cleaner and louder. Granted I have an aftermarket system. If you have a stock (piece of shit) sound system lol, you won’t be able to tell.

this is just a 50/50 guess

Wired headphones are usually clear and get louder then there Wireless counterparts. Saying that, your test was flawed. You should used a wire on both headphone testing. They were correct when they said that the wired headphones was less muffled.

lol you can feel it

Audio quality wise wired.
practicality, wireless.

The thing about doing these tests is it is very hard to tell the difference unless your hearing is 1. Really good and 2. You are good at memorizing noise profiles. You need really good hearing so you can find the very small differences. The moment you take off one headset and put in another your ears have already picked up the audio from your surroundings so you would need to be able to remember what the noise profile of the headset was.

Man the audio quality of this video isn’t very good. It is like they used the built in camera mic

I was hoping for technical specs for wireless vs wired audio quality aswell but still a cool video👍 it may even say it in the Manual but... I dont rtfm so🙈

Flawed. This wasn't thought through. What about aptx, aac, ldac, headphone spec and quality etc etc. The test is flawed.

oh it's the guy from Techlinked!