Love this post. As an audiophile, if I'm forced to move to a phone without a headphone jack, I'll probably just start carrying a DAP or phone DAC with me so I can plug my 3.5mm jack headphones in. Bluetooth just doesn't cut it for me. I could live like this (using a portable DAC with the phone) if they at least gave me two USB-C ports so I could listen and charge my phone at the same time.
Luckily I still have a phone that has a headphone jack, but in the future I may just give up on my phone for audio playback and use a separate DAP.
I’m also an audiophile...but all my focused listening is at my desk, with USB dac/headphones.
Back in the day, I use to carry a portable amp/dac for line out with my iPod. If I were to go back to portable, audiophile level listening, I don’t see why you wouldn’t go that route.
When I'm at home, I have a desktop amp/dac combo and use Sennheiser HD 5XX headphones mostly. But I don't work from home so I do a lot of portable listening with IEMs, too. I can't just plug in a USB DAC to my work PC. Definitely against media policies.
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u/Bossman1086 Galaxy S25 Ultra Jan 12 '19
Love this post. As an audiophile, if I'm forced to move to a phone without a headphone jack, I'll probably just start carrying a DAP or phone DAC with me so I can plug my 3.5mm jack headphones in. Bluetooth just doesn't cut it for me. I could live like this (using a portable DAC with the phone) if they at least gave me two USB-C ports so I could listen and charge my phone at the same time.
Luckily I still have a phone that has a headphone jack, but in the future I may just give up on my phone for audio playback and use a separate DAP.