A lot of phones require DACs, because “internal DACs are noisier”.
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Poach@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s unclear to me what this person is on about. USB type c uses alt mode for audio. The adapters should be simple wires plus a few resistors. There is no adc or dac or amplifier in the dongle…
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
dorkage@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
All two dongles I have used (Google, Apple) have a DAC.
I’m pretty sure the analog ones are the exception, not the rule.
Anivia@feddit.org 1 month ago
That is correct, and I sure part of the reason for that is that most notebooks, and even many smartphones, don’t support them. DACs are so incredibly cheap nowadays that it costs the manufacturer less to put one in the adapter, than to deal with the cost of half their customers returning the adapter because it doesn’t work with their device.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Analog ones require the USB host to support it. USB DACs on the other hand only require the OS to support them since they just use standard USB features. That’s much more compatible.