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To: Moonray who wrote (170469)6/5/2014 11:17:37 AM
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> Lightning port will enable a switch from analogue to digital audio with an exceedingly high lossless stereo 48 kHz digital output and mono 48 kHz digital input.

Nope, this is incorrect.

By the time the signal gets to the output jack its been converted from digital to analogue. There is no bottleneck at the jack. I regularly listen to 24/48 music on my $20 headphones.

Unless the headphones themselves do the digital to analogue conversion and there is really no advantage to that unless... perhaps... you are using bluetooth headphones. I'm not even sure the Lighting ports can carry analogue although I suspect they can.

Can bluetooth carry an analogue signal? I'm guessing once again it can.

(Answering my own question after a quick search, bluetooth has its own digital audio format and its LOSSY which means essential data is lost. So beats bluetooth headphone work this way. Apple's Lossless codec, ALAC is better than CD (16bit/44khz) quality and theoretically lossless, but as I said currently the DAC is on the device so there is no loss from the device to the headphones at 24/48.)

If Apple does this I would probably not buy an Apple phone. It would mean ONLY Apple headphones would work on an Apple device. That's just TOO much of a sandbox for me. This is a terrible development for audiophiles.
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