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I myself have about a thousand dollars invested in high-end headphones and earbuds (Sony DJ cans, Extreme Isolation EX-29 for the open office, Sennheiser earbud
by bashinator 10y ago
I myself have about a thousand dollars invested in high-end headphones and earbuds (Sony DJ cans, Extreme Isolation EX-29 for the open office, Sennheiser earbuds for the commute) that I have no intention of replacing or buying a dongle for.
- zyxley 10y agoYou don't need to buy a dongle - it comes with one.
- csommers 10y agoI seriously question the quality of the DAC in that dongle.
- Gorbzel 10y agoClearly you've never seen any teardowns of Apple adapters. Usually the best (cleanest power, data throughput, etc) in their respective categories.
- jdminhbg 10y agoIf you cared about the quality of the DAC, wouldn't you have bought a great one already?
- cortesoft 10y agoAnd you think the built in DAC on the old iPhones was better?
- Zombieball 10y agoThat's a key benefit of this change. Ditch the legacy analog port that is wasting space. Allow consumers to use a DAC that meets their quality standards, be it a cheap one in the dongle, one built into headphones with a lightning connector, or an external / improved DAC dongle.
- wl 10y agoAudio DACs have not been the limiting factor in the analog signal chain for a long time.
- astrange 10y agoThere are no bad DACs anymore and there haven't been for a decade. You'll probably be getting slightly better analog environment since the DAC isn't near the antenna and CPU as well!
- awj 10y agoWhy do you think it would be any different from what they built into previous models?