Exactly. I was especially impressed with how clean the bass came through, at least on my headset. The bass is usually what ends up either badly distorted, or missing altogether. I think that's the HDR mics doing their work.
As an aside, this thing has a headphone jack..
As a 6S+ owner I have to admit the eye watering pricing on the latest iPhones (and of Pixel phones as well) has me looking more and more in the direction of 'the new Nokia'. Nearly pure Android, decent pricing, good specs, standard ports. Let's see if they bring the 8 or the 9 to the USA.