You're going to need a pair of wired headphones to listen to Lossless Audio on Apple Music; here are our choices.
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The 3.5mm to Lightning converter is a DAC.As far as I can see I would need to subscribe to Apple Music and buy a signal converter as well so that’s £210 set up minimum,plus£120 pa, for the rest of your life. Ain’t no bargain !
The 3.5mm to Lightning converter is a DAC.
I don't think you understand how I happy I am to finally have audio files worth listening to on Apple Music. I sacrificed a healthy chunk of my listening pleasure for the sake of convenience. And now my Shure's are actually worth connecting to my phone to listen to music.THEN:
Get Bluetooth headphones, they said!
Bluetooth is great, they said!
Wireless is the way to go, they said!
Here's our picks for BT headphones, they said!
(Buys Bluetooth headphones)
NOW:
You'll need wired headphones, they said!
Lossless won't work with Bluetooth, they said!
Here's our picks for WIRED headphones, they said!
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I don't think you understand how I happy I am to finally have audio files worth listening to on Apple Music. I sacrificed a healthy chunk of my listening pleasure for the sake of convenience. And now my Shure's are actually worth connecting to my phone to listen to music.
Yes that would allow you to listen to lossless.Cool! They list the Sony WH-1000XM4 because it has a 3.5 jack. My headphones also have a 3.5 jack. Would they get lossless with the 3.5 to lightning cable, you say is also a DAC?
Yes that would allow you to listen to lossless.
I don’t think the lightning to 3.5 adaptor will sufficiently power your headphones.
If you have a apples lighting to jack and a pair of over the head headphones like beats ect you be Listen to lossless has a built in dac in it
A DAC is a digital to analog converter. It takes a digital signal and converts to analog to run through the physical cable. There is no power. If you are using hifi headphones that need more power to sound their best at lower volumes then that requires a headphone amplifier.
If there was no power, your headphones would make no sound, you have contradicted yourself by immediately mentioning that Hi fi cans need more power !
Yeah bad phrasing on my part. They require no additional power of any kind other than the minimal amount that is normally supplied. Hifi devices generally have a lower impedance rating and need to have a boosted signal to sound their best at lower volumes. It is required to run the drivers properly. Most people do not need to worry about any of it because most people will be using headphones with insufficient drivers for lossless anyway.
So can we agree that; If you pay for Apple Music, and your hearing is good enough, And you buy a decent set of HiFi headphones as well as a separate DAC/amplifier (like wot I said). It is possible that you may be able to gain some benefit from Apple’s High Definition Lossless Audio stream ?