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Removal of the jack dramatically downgraded the quality if you care about it, wireless protocols are simply no match for high end audio. Suddenly ultra cheap ph
by saiya-jin 3y ago
Removal of the jack dramatically downgraded the quality if you care about it, wireless protocols are simply no match for high end audio. Suddenly ultra cheap phones sounded properly better.
Of course marketing sold it as benefit, which for some it was since they are ok with average quality. Considering thick brick that current iphones are for quite some time, space taken by port was never the issue, unlike stated originally as reason for removal.
- skydhash 3y agoThey have a dongle that is pretty nice. But why would I want to run my really nice headphones with iPhone as the source?
- astrange 3y agoNot all "really nice" headphones are high-impedance, and if they were a headphone amp isn't a source, it's an amp. The source is the DAC and the DAC in that dongle is better than most audiophile DACs are. Remember, audiophile equipment is scams made by small companies and iPhone dongles have bigger R&D budgets than their entire industry.
- astrange 3y agoYou can't hear AAC compression artifacts. Or do you have an ABX test? And if you could, it'd be balanced out in outdoors use cases by the lack of wired audio artifacts, namely cable telephonics sending walking impacts into your ears. Anyway, AirPods do support lossless audio now. (Well, next year.) https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/ https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/
- robotresearcher 3y agoIs the DAC in the cheap dongle worse than the old built in DAC?