Open the link. That is the quote.The better question is why did you cut off the quote?
Open the link. That is the quote.The better question is why did you cut off the quote?
I am with you, Darryl! I bought an iPad Pro this year and watch quite often movies on it in the evening. For that I want to use my headphones of choice (Shure-1540). What is really annoying that I have to use an effing dongle, especially when I am charging my iPad at the same time, as in the evening the iPad's battery levels are quite low. So, unplug the charging cable, dongle goes in (permanently connected with the headphones) and connect the charging cable with the dongle.Great. Users are able to enjoy lossless & spatial over wired connections... unlike "the future" which still lacks the bandwidth to deliver the same. When does "the future" actually arrive again?
Those:
I call that Win:Win!
- who want maximum quality have a way to enjoy it.
- happy with the "convenience" (the future) method can enjoy their compressed audio their preferred way too.
And personally, I'd welcome a headphone jack back on the next incarnation of my favorite iPad, given an Apple-quality DAC is already inside to play to it and I'm no fan of dongles at all. Those who:
...could fully have audio their way. Everybody could get what they want with one little resurrection that Apple themselves are still interested in adding to brand new hardware offerings in late 2023.
- ARE fans of dongles,
- already own USB-C wired headphone,
- are fans of "the future" option and/or
- want to maximize the quality of the audio from lossless/spatial...
Apple is conservative. When the iPhone came out it had a screen that was like 70 percent of the sRGB color gamut. It took the iPhone 5 to introduce 100 percent sRGB and get decent blues on screen. Mind you they had high quality screens and digitizers though. But I guess high quality takes time to mass produce. It’s a cost versus efficiency thingYou're probably right. Just seems like if you're going to do 24-bit, 96KHz DAC, why not go all the way to 192? That or make the baseline cheaper and just do 16-bit, 44.1KHz or whatever. Plus, why doesn't offer a full 24-bit, 192 KHz external DAC, and get even more money? But hey, my mind just works weird. Even I don't understand how I think sometimes…
If Apple really cared about its users than every Mac would support Dolby Atmos and come with 13 speakers.Should be something that nobody can spin as a negative but yeah
Right it loses exactly half of the unnecessary data. There is no distortion. Humans can't hear above 20kHz. The frequencies being lost are above 48kHz.Converting 192kHz audio to 96kHz is not a lossless process and does result in distortion within the audible band
Someone who is getting into multimedia production and content creators will benefit from this without needing separate anything though.Anyone who cares about this already owns at least a DAC/AMP if not each part separately.
Plenty of sub $200 headphones (reasonably priced) can take advantage of this.You're going to need a pretty expensive pair of headphones to take advantage of this
Audio professionals are quite particular about their equipment and already have the headphones (and potentially the backup headphones) they plan to use for listening, mixing, etc. from now until the next version of their “faves” come out, there’s nothing about adding a 3.5mm jack (or a 1/4in jack) to AirPods Max that’s likely to change that. From a pure numbers perspective, there are more non-audio professionals in the world, too. So, another reason why it makes more financial sense to just focus on “consumers with the money to buy the devices.”I like how much credit you’re giving them about this. I thought audio professionals would appreciate a copper line straight in rather than having to always deal with the vagaries of wireless. But I haven’t done any market research and I don’t have the sales numbers, and Apple is definitely not going to tell us.
Audio professionals are quite particular about their equipment and already have the headphones (and potentially the backup headphones) they plan to use for listening, mixing, etc. from now until the next version of their “faves” come out, there’s nothing about adding a 3.5mm jack (or a 1/4in jack) to AirPods Max that’s likely to change that. From a pure numbers perspective, there are more non-audio professionals in the world, too. So, another reason why it makes more financial sense to just focus on “consumers with the money to buy the devices.”
And it’s not like it’s false that there are folks that would like to see a 3.5mm jack on a product they’d never buy.
1. Anyone who needs or wants the highest quality audio possible from their Mac.Who wants to be tethered to his/her Mac? I'd feel like one of those telemarketer drones sitting all day, can't move more than the length of the cord, having to raise your hand for permission to use the bathroom…