What John said pretty much applies to many of Apple's facilities for
what of a better way to describe them, AirPlay is another example which
I suspect is one of the reasons why so many manufacturers just aren't
bothering with AirPlay these days prefering to use Bluetooth aptX.
I have a set of Philips cans - can't remember the model number now -
which are equipped with a Lightning doc connector.
Now these cans cost well over $400 Australian but they're worth every
cent as far as I'm concerned, audio is excellent through the in-built
DAC of these cans so you guessed it, the cans take the digital stream
straight from the iPhone itself.
Philips do make a 3.5MM minijack version of the same cans for around the
same amount of money.
On 9/09/2016 1:00 AM, Hamit Campos wrote:
Yeah that sucks. Does it cost anything to use APTX? Why could it be that they
don't use it? Lausless is epic!
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of John Gurd
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 5:50 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: RE: So the new iPhone 7 has been announced
Actually, I wouldn't mind so much about the removal of the jack if Apple
granted licence to use the lightning connector to others free of charge. As
things stand any headphone manufacturer making use of the lightning connector
has to pay Apple a fee as Apple holds the patent. That will unnecessarily
restrict the numbers of manufacturers to those with the cash and willing to
design products just for Apple gear that are useless for anything else.
Oh, by the way, the pods that come with the iPhone are lightening,, you have to
pay 150 bucks for the airpods. And to date Apple don't even use the optional
Bluetooth lossless APTEX standard
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tim Noonan
Sent: 08 September 2016 01:54
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: So the new iPhone 7 has been announced
The Airpots are still using Bluetooth, but wrapped in all sorts of Apple secret
sauce.
Probably some aspects from the now announced BT 5.0 spec.
Here is a fuller description of the justification for removing the headphone
jack and the Airpod tech and design.
Inside iPhone 7: Why Apple Killed The Headphone Jack - BuzzFeed News
https://t.co/TV2Kps3Mvz
On 8 Sep 2016, at 9:15 AM, Hamit Campos <hamitcam...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah not much was said but it sounds like they are more wireless than blue
tooth. They talked trach about blue tooth. I mean just to say that they didn't
seem keen to use it. So I guess it's some kind of wireless like wireless
headphones and keyboards use. Which for distance is much better. Leo Laporte
and Andy Anatco were pissed about the jack. They kept insisting that they could
have kept it. But that would mean the phone would have to be wider at best.
Right? AAlso I agree with Shiller time to cut the cord. Cords always tangle
especially the cheep spegetty cord like Apple themselves use for the ear pods.
Or you could axidentally step on them and break something like I've done to my
Bose OE2I head phone kable. Stuff like that. I agree it's not fare for those
that have bought mad expensive stuff that is corded but oh well se la vi. At
least they give ya an adaptor.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 6:46 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: So the new iPhone 7 has been announced
Indeed it has and no real surprises.
The headphones socket has gone to make way for another speaker - thus stereo
speakers which should dramatically improve the sound of the phone - and that
can only be a plus.
According to the blurb I read the iPhone comes with two very nice additions, a
lightning dock to 3.5MM headphones adapter and a set of Airbuds, interesting to
know whether these use AirPlay, Bluetooth or yet another standard? I wasn�t
presented with much information on them.
No mention of atpX unfortunately, at least we have the dock where we can plug
in DAC�s if better sound is what we�re after or we have AirPlay.
I�ll still be holding onto my iPhone 6 having spent a small fortune on the Arcam DAC
<smile>.
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