Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by dcole2929 on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:17PM (#14840460)

Exactly this. It's nice that lightning theoretically gives you more throughput but it's completely pointless if the signal has to get transformed a half dozen times between device and ear.

And all the nicer phones aren't going to lightning cables either because the Pro Audio community (the people primarily buying $3-400 non Beats headphones) would revolt.

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by TylerE on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:26PM (#14842323)

I dunno. Decent cans don't generally drive well from phones anyway - so you're stuck with an external amp. Many amps have integrated DACs... why not just feed digital audio to the amp/dac via lightning?

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by dm319 on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:17PM (#14842256)

Yes, has anyone looked at the quality of the DAC in the 'dongle'?

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by probablybanned on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:35AM (#14845601)

Some tests are referenced in this article:

https://ifixit.org/blog/8448/apple-audio-adapter-teardown/

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