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Yeah, having an on-device DAC was really the killer feature for me. I'm fine using a lightning-to-3.5mm adapter but trying to be clever and putting the DAC in the adapter didn't work out super great for me since they seem to break super easily.

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I never got the adapter to actually work, it's like there would always be bad contact even though the port is clean. Extremely unreliable.

I've just stopped listening to music on my phone.

Any phone that has speakers, must be having an on-device DAC, even if there's no headphone jack.

Right, I just mean that's it's not connected to the lightning port. Apple's lightning-3.5mm adapter conceals a small DAC inside compared to Google's approach on the older Pixels where USB-C just carried the analog signal which I think was a better, albeit more complicated, design.

Pixel 2 had the DAC in the dongle, not the phone.

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