The elimination of the minijack port of the new iPhone 7 has not been a coincidenceIt is a way to go further ... Apple used to get rid of this classic port to get something that many wanted: that the iPhone was waterproof, and now it is. A minijack port that what I had in the old iPhone's was a DAC converter that transformed digital audio into analog audio to be able to listen to it on analog headphones.
With the new iPhone 7 Apple has gotten rid of this portYes, they know that in the world of headphones the minijack has been a standard and it cannot be eliminated just like that (and more so taking into account the prices of professional headphones). The solution: include a converter cable, or Lightning to minijack adapter along with the new iPhone 7. After the jump we show you the video that shows us everything that is hidden under the Lightning connector of the new 3.5mm minijack to Lightning adapter ...
As you have seen, The brain of the Lightning to minijack adapter is a DAC converter, a digital audio to analog audio converter, and we cannot forget that a minijack connector is an analog audio connector and therefore a DAC that interprets the digital audio that comes out of our iPhone. In the end we have the same thing that we had before inside the iPhone but in this case outside of our iPhone. Something quite necessary to gain some space within the iPhone hardware and achieve that tightness so demanded.
Yes, audio fans will say there's nothing quite like analog audio, but keep in mind that If we use the Lightning headphones, and we leave the Lightning adapter to minijack, we will be saving conversion processes and the audio quality will be better, in the end the audio of our iPhone is digital and this is the first thing we have to take into account, this and the quality of the music we are playing ... No matter how good headphones we have, if we play ultra-compressed audio, we will be able to hear little ...
Although the headphones are lightning, you do not save the conversion to analog. To move the headphones, the analog is still necessary.
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Always defending the indefensible… .Is it not easier to admit that Apple increasingly closes the door to the use of other devices that are not theirs or generates an extra expense to be able to use what we have always used? This change strikes me as monumental stupidity. How many "serious" headphones are on the market compatible with this system? because they have had to improve these latest headphones a lot to take them into account (all the other iphone 4,5,6 in their boxes are) you will say, well, you can use the adapter if you don't like it. Of course, another little cable with which to carry or carry in your pocket, another cable that over time will bend 1000 times like the charging cables and will end up breaking and we will have to go through the box, again. It is the same as laptops without usb. Who can think of ... aesthetics? who does not use a usb? What is much nicer a laptop with a piece of cable hanging to connect a USB? and regarding that the quality will be better ... haven't you thought that the process is the same? at the end the D / A conversion has to be done and in this case the same number of times as with the old system. The quality will depend on the converter they are using now and the one they used before. is more in this system the wireless factor intervenes that did not exist before.
I've been following this website for a long time and I like it, I like the work you do and I congratulate you, I love apple. But many times in your articles you seem like an advertising website. You could be a little more impartial and get a little wet with an opinion that is not always defending Apple.
I am a long-time Apple fan, I have several iPhones, iPads, Imas. But that does not mean that I always justify mistakes, there are. When something fails you have to say it….
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