leosgonewild wrote:

DJ Kalid mod?

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It feels like H8 was rushed to market (even tough B&O America said in an interview they where late to wireless headphones because they wanted to do it just right). I haven't had so many drop outs since my first portable CD-player. I remember when I had a MiniDisc player and how it lasted about a minute if I would run with it. 

The H8 dropped out 58 times in one song earlier on my morning walk. It is just not acceptable. How could that gone unnoticed in development? If so many of us here have the issues I don't think it is just my own headset that is an issue. I am considering to stop using them because they are ruining how I perceive my music collection. 

I went back to the store to retunr my "loaners". Took both tram and bus in order to test them. Walked around in the city. Didn´t experience any drops, so now I am sitting here with my new, brown H8´s 😐

leosgonewild wrote:

I went back to the store to retunr my "loaners". Took both tram and bus in order to test them. Walked around in the city. Didn´t experience any drops, so now I am sitting here with my new, brown H8´s 😐

Hi leosgonewild :D. What kind of phone do you use with them? 

To be honest I have had walks and rides without drop outs but also the same with tremendous amounts of dropouts. I commute on a daily basis and have been travelling a lot with my H8´s already.

What I mean is that I would not be surprised if you would get dropouts any time soon :/. 

I work in a university.. which  is also right in the middle of all the tech-industry environment..

I'm wondering if this has to to with the signals in the air that causes the interference.

I notice that if I'm just sitting on the train during my commute, it's fine.

But when I'm in the university walking around... and sometimes just waiting at the bus stop pacing... I would get A LOT of drop outs.

The B&O branch near me is receiving a new shipment in today... and I'm going to go exchange mine for a 3rd one.  I'm hoping it's the manufacturing of the units...(I heard they're made in China? I haven't looked at the box) and this lot will be better.  

I have an iphone 5. Been using iphone ever since the 1st gen.

But I have been wanting to try Microsoft for a while, so today after buying the H8, I went by the microsoft store and bought a Nokia 1320, as it was only 249euros, and has a huge screen.

I live in Helsinki, and it is not as crowded as the situations as you describe in your testing ;)

Will update with my experiences.  (Someone has to be early adopters 😕)

I'm really glad I don't work for B&O when reading these threads.  I think my face would turn red and steam would blow from my ears.  

Just like the A2 thread where there are some very vocal complaints about "lack of bass", I'm wondering if this is a "laws of physics" type of problem here.  I don't think bluetooth was ever designed for communication between objects that are moving independently from one another in "noisy" (radiowave noise) environments.  I'm also willing to bet that the most common "use case" is sitting on a plane or train (so there should relatively little noise or movement vs. walking in a crowded urban environment)... and I hope they work well in this environment because that is where I plan to use mine whenever they arrive (waiting on brown ones) - and even if they don't I'll just use the a wired connection because I'm sitting it's not that big of a deal -  I'm not saying this is a solution for everybody - after all, what is the point of wireless headphones if they only work well when wired?

I'm sorry that they're not working for you guys, and if there's a fix, that would be great.  Then again, sometimes stuff just doesn't work the way you want it to because the laws of physics get in the way, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Has anybody used other bluetooth headphones in similar environments with better results?  I'm really curious as I'd like to understand if these dropout problems are unique to my favorite brand or is this just the nature of bluetooth?  I have a bluetooth mouse that dropout every once in a while, and it is right next to my laptop...

Stan 

Good point, Stan. My bluetooth keyboard and mouse sometimes acts up. But most of the time it works as it should. 

For me, a wireless headphone shall allow me to move freely. If they don´t, I could just use wired ones. 

This is my first wireless headphones, and I must say that the freedom I experienced today when leaving home to go to work was wonderful. Turning on the H8, putting them on, and out the door I went. No need to think about how I should put on my scarf.