"The current state of headphones is a bummer. In one sense, the market has never been so good: from Bose to Sony to Apple to Google to Samsung to Sennheiser to JBL to unpronounceable Chinese knockoffs, you can't spin around in a Best Buy without finding a pair of solid-sounding earbuds. Across prices and styles, we're spoiled for choice. But as headphones have improved, they've also gotten more stratified."
"But as headphones have improved, they've also gotten more stratified. If you want the pair with the most features and the best integration with your device, you pretty much have to buy the ones made by the company that also makes your phone. They'll connect more easily, they'll have more features, they'll sometimes even sound better. They're mostly Bluetooth headphones, and generally speaking, anything can connect to anything. But Bluetooth connections are not all created equal."
The headphone market offers a wide range of solid-sounding options across many brands and price points. Headphones have become more stratified, with best feature sets and tightest integration usually coming from manufacturers that also make the paired phone. Brand-made earbuds tend to connect more easily, offer more features, and sometimes sound better. Most modern headphones use Bluetooth, but Bluetooth connections vary in capability and experience. The Google Pixel Buds 2A represent strong value at $129.99 with good sound and functionality, yet they can underperform when paired with devices outside their ecosystem.
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