You can’t imagine how many wired headphones I’ve thrown away because they have gotten frayed…

Is there anything nasty in a standard wired headphone though? My impression was that basic electronics are much easier to dispose of than lithium batteries.

Do you realize how little waste their is in tiny AirPods compared to one car battery?

Now you're moving the goalposts.

No, if you are worried about “e-waste” worrying about tiny AirPods is not the answer.

It’s just like these financial gurus telling people who are deep in debt to cut coupons to save $4 a week.

So why were you worried about wired headphones getting frayed a couple of posts back?

My AKG K240's have a standard mini XLR to 3.5mm connector. I've had to replace it maybe once in the 8 years I've had the headphones

So since you aren’t opposed to getting an extra connector, you shouldn’t have any issue getting a 3.5 inch to lightning connector…

Having swappable connectors is a plus for the ability to replace the most common point of failure on wired headphones.

Actually having to bring multiple connectors everywhere and swap them out more frequently than cables fail is a negative.

Both can be true at once.

So you would be okay with an XLR to lightning adapter or should Apple include an XLR plug on the iPhone too?

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LCXLR--saramonic-lc-...

No, because I'd have to swap it out if I wanted to use a different device. As my second paragraph ays, having to swap it out frequently is a downside compared to my client device having a standard socket.

The headphone has a mini-XLR to 3.5mm connector built in. If it fails it's easy to replace. If the client device supports the standard 3.5mm connector it doesn't have to give a shit that the other end is XLR on IntelMiner's headphone (or in the case of my own headphones, 2.5mm for one set and 3.5mm for the other).

Take better care of them? Or are you referring to the terrible wired ones Apple used to have?