It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    Just replace my perfectly good $200 headphones that work in my (old) phone, my Switch, my 3DS, my laptop, my iPod, and my work phone.

    It’s so simple!

    Seriously, even if you don’t use it, why are you so against others having the choice? The headphone *jack was the standard for decades for a reason. If my phone is low on power, I’d like to be able to charge it without disconnecting my music/podcasts…

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      6 months ago

      But like, 3.5 to usbc is a 10 buck conversion. Tbh i see merit in double usb c over usbc and headphone jack, might be more doable too, the DAC prolly takes more space than an additional usbc

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          6 months ago

          It’s not a work-around, a headphone requires a DAC and an amp. In fact, my phone has a crap DAC causing artifacts in the sound. It’s actually not to my benefit to have the jack because I’d get better sound with the external DAC which is transparent.

          So the jack works, but the DAC you get can be whatever the manufacturer considers good enough.

          DACs I can hear issues in:

          My phone, my tablet, my desktop PC

          DACs that are transparent to me:

          My laptop, my $12 external DAC