But in actual reality, a good quality USB dongle (like apple’s for example) there is little to no hearable or measurable difference. Hell, over on reddit, someone just did a casual blind test again with a few audiophile friends and they all failed.
Every blind test done in the past decade has proven this over and over and over again.
Audio is extremely easy with modern ICs. You can get DAC ICs for 2-3€ that sounds the same as DACs products for 200€. We are reaching terahertz DACs now. Gigahertz DACs are established. <100kHz can be perfectly recreated now cheaply and in a tiny footprint.
Volume, sure, they won’t necessarily drive 600Ohm headphones loud enough, but that is an AMP problem, not a DAC problem.
(Though this is even more reason that an on-board phone DAC is ridiculously easy and there is no need for removing the headphone jack)
Of course not but it uses USB so you cannot block that which increases attack surface for no reason
Nobody can hack you via a headphone jack
And Apple heavily reduces the volume on non-Apple devices, which is very audible on bigger headphones. Mine are made to be used on normal hardware but they are already quite limited. Fine, but at the total max volume.
Audio is extremely easy with modern ICs.
Yes and that is why DACs are stupid
causing wear on your port (where you need to remove the display to replace it, and that you use for charging AND data transfer) is stupid
It is not okay that they cost minimum 10€
Low quality usb plugs will cause wear on your port. I had cheap ones and they were fine but got a bad contact very quickly.
Builtin jacks are so amazing. They just work. They make tech pleasant, instead of worrying about silly connectivity issues that nobody should care about
There is this kind of audiophile that pretends that USB DAC’s are better anyways
(They arent, for normal headphones)
But in actual reality, a good quality USB dongle (like apple’s for example) there is little to no hearable or measurable difference. Hell, over on reddit, someone just did a casual blind test again with a few audiophile friends and they all failed.
Every blind test done in the past decade has proven this over and over and over again.
Audio is extremely easy with modern ICs. You can get DAC ICs for 2-3€ that sounds the same as DACs products for 200€. We are reaching terahertz DACs now. Gigahertz DACs are established. <100kHz can be perfectly recreated now cheaply and in a tiny footprint.
Volume, sure, they won’t necessarily drive 600Ohm headphones loud enough, but that is an AMP problem, not a DAC problem.
(Though this is even more reason that an on-board phone DAC is ridiculously easy and there is no need for removing the headphone jack)
Of course not but it uses USB so you cannot block that which increases attack surface for no reason
Nobody can hack you via a headphone jack
And Apple heavily reduces the volume on non-Apple devices, which is very audible on bigger headphones. Mine are made to be used on normal hardware but they are already quite limited. Fine, but at the total max volume.
Yes and that is why DACs are stupid
causing wear on your port (where you need to remove the display to replace it, and that you use for charging AND data transfer) is stupid
It is not okay that they cost minimum 10€
Low quality usb plugs will cause wear on your port. I had cheap ones and they were fine but got a bad contact very quickly.
Builtin jacks are so amazing. They just work. They make tech pleasant, instead of worrying about silly connectivity issues that nobody should care about