A Lightning-only iPhone 7 may sound bad, but we’ll get over it
Aug15
Now that I have my hands on an iPhone 7 dummy unit, the Lightning-only connectivity is staring me right in the face, mocking me to upgrade my current wired earbuds for something… else. But will it be worth it? Lightning sounds expensive (literally) My colleague Napier Lopez recently reviewed some Lightning on-ear headphones, and reports the sound was better than he anticipated. “Music does sound better through the Lightning connector” were his exact words. But those headphones had a Lightning cable with a dedicated amplifier, processor and converter. That’s loftier than what you and I can expect for $50. And to…
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