{"id":15982,"date":"2016-10-07T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15982"},"modified":"2018-06-02T15:35:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T19:35:55","slug":"apples-lightning-to-headphone-adapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/07\/apples-lightning-to-headphone-adapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s Lightning to Headphone Adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ifixit.org\/blog\/8448\/apple-audio-adapter-teardown\/\">Jeff Suovanen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ifixit.org\/blog\/8448\/apple-audio-adapter-teardown\/\">\n<p>There&rsquo;s actually a <em>lot<\/em> going on in there. As expected, one end is a simple female 3.5 mm headphone jack, and the other end is a male Lightning connector. But what&rsquo;s all that silicon around the Lightning connector end? Most of the retail space near the connector is taken up by a single mystery IC.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In past iPhones like the 6s, both DAC and ADC functions were handled internally. The analog inputs and outputs from the headphone jack (and other components) were wrangled by a single chip on the logic board, a custom Apple\/Cirrus Logic IC labeled 338S00105. (In the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, that same exact chip still exists&mdash;because even without a headphone jack, the phone still has to shake hands with the built-in loudspeakers and microphones, all of which use analog signals.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/martinsteiger\/post\/70497014\">Martin Steiger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/martinsteiger\/post\/70497014\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/iPhone-7-Hoertest-Audio-Adapter-kann-Rauschen-verstaerken-3327892.html\">Various issues<\/a> with the new Apple headphone adapter: (increased noise, less quality, not compatible with all headphones etc.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/28\/removing-the-iphones-headphone-jack\/\">Lightning to 3.5 mm Headphone Jack Adapter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-06-02): <a href=\"https:\/\/theoutline.com\/post\/4745\/apple-dongle-still-bad\">Jeremy Larson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/theoutline.com\/post\/4745\/apple-dongle-still-bad\">\n<p>After one year, this was my third dongle that has needed to be returned, not counting the two I have lost. Two of them started having problems with distorting the audio; one just stopped working altogether.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Suovanen: There&rsquo;s actually a lot going on in there. As expected, one end is a simple female 3.5 mm headphone jack, and the other end is a male Lightning connector. But what&rsquo;s all that silicon around the Lightning connector end? 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