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Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 12 2018, @04:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the they-can't-hear-you dept.

canopic jug writes:

PC World has an article on why USB-C has not been a viable alternative for the 3.5mm audio jack. Problems with USB-C include variable handling of digital to audio conversion, incompatible SOCs inside the cable, and non-standard analog-passthrough. In short, the cables which contain computers themselves are not standardized in behavior and the author's conclusion is that mobile devices must have 3.5mm jacks until the USB-C cable technology gets sorted out enough that they become usable.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @10:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @10:32AM (#733540)

    so make the phone send either analog audio, or digital audio via the standard audio cable. and then you can decode the high bitrate signal in your headphones, if that's what you want.
    I don't see why that should be a problem (coaxial cables are still being used for network connections, right?), and modern headphones will just do different things to the signal that is given to them.

    my argument for analog headphones is that the headphones should last 20 years at a minimum if they're good quality. I already have good headphones.