So, I have a bit of an off the wall question... I ask this as someone who already has the W5...
Yesterday I spent several hours with my W5 while I was out and about running errands, and I had an epiphany... Why do we need the W5 or any other Bluetooth receiver for normal wired IEMs (intentionally excluding Bluetooth cables like Shure and Westone have)?
Ultimately I am still managing my wires, carrying my phone or DAP... No matter how good LDAC or UAT are, clearly they are not better than wired - they may be almost indistinguishable to wires, but not better...
So why carry wired IEMs, carry my cell phone or DAP (as source for W5), carry the W5, and deal with very finicky BT connection quality / dropouts - all for connection quality that at best is no better than I could get wired straight to the source? What use cases am I missing?
I guess one answer is if the W5 or other Bluetooth receiver has a better DAC/Amp than your cell phone or DAP... another is in the case of no headphone jack available on your cell phone but even there I have to believe that the dongle based DACs with headphone connectors have to be pretty good... To me these are both pretty weak reasons...
Thoughts?