Apple’s $10 dongle has measured better than many fancy DACs and its silly to spend more than that on a portable setup.
Apple’s $10 dongle has measured better than many fancy DACs and its silly to spend more than that on a portable setup. I say this as someone who has spent thousands on headphones, amps and DACs over the years. It’s a silly hobby that is far too expensive for what you get out of it
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Yeah, the plan is far too expensive for what it provides.
NewCrashed demand after one of the big AI labs (probably Anthropic because they focus way too hard on expensive frontier models) become inso...
New/dev/random is much too expensive for this.
Yeah, this always bugged me.
A year ago, I had the opinion that it'd be too expensive for developers to support offline mode, peer to peer, or community servers after...
The weird thing about this product is that its biggest competitor is "an old ipad." I feel like most of their target customer base alread...
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Apple’s $10 dongle has measured better than many fancy DACs and its silly to spend more than that on a portable setup.
Apple’s $10 dongle has measured better than many fancy DACs and its silly to spend more than that on a portable setup. I say this as someone who has spent thousands on headphones, amps and DACs over the years. It’s a silly hobby that is far too expensive for what you get out of it
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