c.coyle
Fighting the Dunning-Kruger effect.
This sounds like marketing department BS to me. All else being equal, whether the DAC is in the earbuds or back at the device itself shouldn't make any difference, should it? Or are they just saying they have a better DAC, and happened to have stuck it in the earbuds?
"By scrapping your antiquated headphones, Apple is doing something extraordinary for music"
"Here’s why. Apple designed its custom Lightning port to supply much more power to headphones than the traditional 3.5mm jack, so the new iPhones are inviting smoother data transference as well as the opportunity for headphone makers to introduce new, innovative features. As Tech Radar explains:
'With Lightning or Bluetooth, the audio signal is transferred to our headphones digitally—meaning that the signal isn’t degraded like it is with a traditional 3.5mm jack. Instead, the audio signals are decoded by the digital-analogue converter (DAC) in our headphones, pulling the bits apart and making them into the smooth analogue sound we know.
Simply put, Lightning cables are capable of transferring much more data […] which means higher fidelity audio in your ears.' "
"By scrapping your antiquated headphones, Apple is doing something extraordinary for music"
"Here’s why. Apple designed its custom Lightning port to supply much more power to headphones than the traditional 3.5mm jack, so the new iPhones are inviting smoother data transference as well as the opportunity for headphone makers to introduce new, innovative features. As Tech Radar explains:
'With Lightning or Bluetooth, the audio signal is transferred to our headphones digitally—meaning that the signal isn’t degraded like it is with a traditional 3.5mm jack. Instead, the audio signals are decoded by the digital-analogue converter (DAC) in our headphones, pulling the bits apart and making them into the smooth analogue sound we know.
Simply put, Lightning cables are capable of transferring much more data […] which means higher fidelity audio in your ears.' "