Apple's iPhone 7 Lightning to 3.5mm Analog Jack Adaptor — and it's FREE with every iPhone 7 phone purchased!
Posted on 09/09/2016 4:43:54 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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By scrapping antiquated headphones, Apple is doing something extraordinary for music (Link Only )
I think it was Jinks who said I hate messes to pieces :-)
This one isn't free, but it lets the user charge the iPhone 7 while listening and also change volume, tracks, and answer the phone, etc., on headphones/buds that don't support that kind of activity. Oh, gee, that kind of shoots down all of those complainers, doesn't it.
And I will agree with you. But no one is going to carry "well designed analog equipment that will blow the doors off of digital stuff" around with them in a phone, or while they are jogging, or riding the bus, or on a plane. It just ain't gonna happen. So you try to maximize the digital source and playback as best as you can.
If you can afford it, a tube driven amplifier system with a great analog music source is wonderful. But I can't quite figure out how to carry one around with me. The batteries are coming down in weight, but the tube heat is a bitch, but the real problem is the turntable. . . perhaps a 7 ¼" reel to reel tape would do the trick?
However, at 67, carrying around that weight on a backpack is getting beyond me. I'm gonna have to hire a Sherpa or three.
Nope. Don’t go back quite 40 years, yet. Just go back ~30 years. Started with NASA out of college and found my way back there now. Just a geek at heart.
One of them does. Only one.
I've also been a pro musician. . . long ago in college. Later in life I was Bass section lead for the Stockton Chorale for around 10 years. We were the invited group to perform with the Manhattan Philharmonic Orchestra for the 100th Anniversary Concert of Carnegie Hall. Our founding conductor, Dr. Art Holton, was brought out of retirement to conduct both the Philharmonic and the the Chorale in Arthur Honegger's "King David". Sold Out New York crowd with the Governor or NY and the Vice President sitting two boxes away from my now ex-wife. We got four standing ovations! It was exciting.
When we got to New York and got off the busses from the Air Port in front of Carnegie Hall, Art Holton was stunned to see his photo hanging three stories tall off of Carnegie Hall! They gave him Toscanini's dressing room. Art had a huge talent but a bigger inferiority complex. He could have been a big frog in a big pond, and instead settled for being a big frog in a small pond as founder of the Stockton Chorale (which he directed for 50 years) and Stockton Symphony.
The Stockton Chorale was Carmen Dragon's favorite large choral group for which he arranged many of his more famous choral pieces including "God Bless America," and "Down By The Riverside". . . we performed many times with his Glendale Symphony.
So, somewhere, around here, I got the T-shirt too. . . but it's gotten a bit moth eaten over the years. I had to give up the Chorale. I've got a very bad back and after three seasons of rehearsing for the concerts and then finding I could not stand through the concert itself to sing, I finally resigned. I've been on the Board of Directors and an office of the board at various times, but I've pulled back completely an am now just a listener who sits in the audience and enjoys the sound of a truly large choral group.
We took 213 singers to Carnegie Hall for that anniversary concert in 1991 at the invitation of Carter Nice, the conductor of the Manhattan Philharmonic, who had heard the "King David" we had done as Art's retirement concert from the previous spring and wanted it for the Hall's 100th Anniversary Concert.
You can already use wireless (Bluetooth) headphones with most other phones... or you can use the standard jacks.
I recall the first time I saw a THX movie in a theater that had been properly set up and actually had been tuned and certified by a team under the direction of my fourth cousin, George Lucas (He hasn't clue who I am. He's famous, I'm not). But it had ALL of the correct speakers on the walls, behind the screen, etc., and all perfectly balanced. This was in a theater in Hollywood. When the movie ran, "The Last Emperor," the experience was like that. When the opening credits were playing, you could hear every instrument in the orchestra and actually point to where it was playing.
The opening scene is of a gate into the Forbidden City and a cart entering. You can literally hear the cart coming from behind you, on your left, passing your left shoulder at exactly the right time it's next to you, then as it appears on the screen the sounds are exactly in the right place. Characters when they spoke had their voices come from the exact place on the screen where their mouths were locked, both left and right and vertically. It was phenomenal.
I spoke to the theater manager and was told that his theater had 64 channel THX sound. I was flabbergasted. I have NOT been in a THX theater so well set up since then. Most are mere approximations of THX surround sound. Some better than others, but the technicians have gotten very lazy since the movies have gone to multiplexes.
You're not following... I'm referring to other smart phone makers dropping the standard jacks, as they will shortly do. Will you tell them it's a stupid decision? I thought not.
The sensor is on one side. Put it in wrong, it won't work. 50-50 chance of getting it right in the dark, if you can't discern the difference in shape by feel. If wrong, swap them and they'll instantly work because the sensor knows when it is in the correct ear.
I can't answer personally, but knowing Apple, they've been tested out the kazoo. The buds have mikes on each side that work together and they have noise cancellation. They use a conical range going toward the user's mouth. I suspect they work well.
So, you don't seem to be aware that Apple's underlying OS is UNIX™, about as open as you can get, and you have never bothered to learn a thing about it since you made your determination "years ago" that Apple Sux, and you listen to your echo chamber of PC and Android friends who do exactly the same thing. Right. That gets you no where.
90% of Apple users know far more about both platforms and have made the conscious decision to use Apple products for good and educated reasons, not the ignorant ones you just spouted based on your limited exposure to just PCs and Android.
Yes, I would indeed tell them it's a stupid move. I doubt they're that stupid though.
Apple said nothing about making it thinner now. IT is sufficiently thin. There is nothing to be gained in going thinner than it is already. Any thinner and they'd have no room for the kind of cameras they want in it.
GRIN! Try doing that on a Mac Pro with XEON processors. I've run NINE different OSes simultaneously with no noticeable slowdown. Ten counting UNIX™.
Yes, you can use any bog standard Bluetooth headphone set with the iPhone 7. However, you will not get the advantage of the W1 chipset and the direct to sound ability of that chip's capability to process the sound, nor will you get instant syncing with multiple devices, nor can you get the broader bandwidth of the music. Sorry, Bluetooth's limited in the kind and quality of the music it can handle but Apple's new approach is not.
Apple will be licensing their technology, though, so others can make headsets for it.
Since Intel was founded on July 18, 1968, in Mountain View, CA, 48 years ago, I suspect he can go back 40 years. I go back that far and I didn't work for Intel. . . but I worked on Intel products. :^)
iTunes is a complex piece of Software. Some of it is intuitive, at least on a Mac. The rest requires taking time to learn it.
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