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by musicale
501 days ago
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> Apple lightning-to-headphone-jack adapter being in the latter category Apple's adapter seems pretty good for $9: https://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qu... Also Macs since 2021 can drive high-impedance headphones from the built-in audio jack. Interestingly enough old Macs (and Apple TV and AirPort devices) used to have mini-toslink output, but USB and HDMI are probably more useful in 2025. |
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It surprised me that the jump to devices like the Fosi DS2 that have modern DAC and driver chips with higher design aims was big.
Specification-wise, I’d have expected that noise floors and distortion levels and, idk, the amount of current flowing were in both cases more than enough to sound practically the same, especially in the context of driving line-level devices rather than headphones.
Nnnnope!
I got the little Fosi device for two purposes: To better drive headphones I have – more volts, more current flow – and to kind of disprove to myself that there was a difference working with line-level signals.
Very surprised at the difference with the latter. Surprised that there was a difference. –And it’s not a loudness difference!, which can be deceiving.
It’s a bigger-than-$41 difference, I find.