Intel Wants to Kill the Headphone Jack with USB-C

[henrytcasey]

All of your headphones may rely on the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, but Intel's out to replace the port with USB-C.

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[guanyu210379]

No headphone jack, no buy! I ain't gonna re-buy or replace my headphone collection. V-Moda M100, Bose QC15, etc. Those are not cheap!

 

[ninjaluke]

One concern is that if shrinkage is the aim of the game, might future portable devices include only 1 USB-C port, making connecting to headphones and charging at the same time impossible?

 

[reactive]

As soon as manufacturers can eliminate all analog connections, easy copying of audio files can be shutdown more effectively. At the moment, anybody can still playback and re-record a high quality analog copy, then re-encode it to a practically indistinguishable copy. How Apple (and others) would love to eliminate that possibility!

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Did Apple buy Intel?

 

[henrytcasey]

No headphone jack, no buy! I ain't gonna re-buy or replace my headphone collection. V-Moda M100, Bose QC15, etc. Those are not cheap!

Right there with you, and not even for price. My favorite headphones took a while to find. It's like finding the best kind of shoe for one's self. I don't want any parts changed, and you can pry these headphones from my cold dead hands.

 

[iDarkfusion]

One concern is that if shrinkage is the aim of the game, might future portable devices include only 1 USB-C port, making connecting to headphones and charging at the same time impossible?

Maybe a Y cable supplied with the device?

As soon as manufacturers can eliminate all analog connections, easy copying of audio files can be shutdown more effectively. At the moment, anybody can still playback and re-record a high quality analog copy, then re-encode it to a practically indistinguishable copy. How Apple (and others) would love to eliminate that possibility!

Copying audio will be still possible, its just wire a headphone speaker output to a microphone jack

Anyway, im with guanyu and henry, i don't want to buy a new 16 channel mixer or buy a analog-to-digital adapter who can ruin my audio quality
*Sorry for bad english*