If budget is constantly an issue, maybe try some wired iems that will last longer than wireless. I can easily recommend the tangzu wan’er 2 (3.5mm, not 4.4mm) as you get a quality mass produced cable, great eartips that hold up against sweat, and they are tuned better for vocals which translates well in audiobooks and podcasts. I’m not an all out audiophile but I dabble. That would cost about $25usd + shipping and then you can get a jcally type c dac for cheap. If you’re on an iphone, you can just get a lightning to 3.5mm dongle instead of the jcally or other dac. You can obviously still go wireless if you’d like.






Tried it out for about an hour yesterday. I LOVE the explore tab they have. It felt like I was on Google/Ask Jeeves in the 90s. I came across a site ran by a curmudgeony linux enthusiast that predates Google, a dollz revival fan site, fermi (discord alt), a site where a guy writes extremely long in-depth reviews about retro video games, and a bunch of neocities pages (that really took me back).