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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: 2) by bryan on Wednesday September 12 2018, @07:03PM

    by bryan (29) <bryan@pipedot.org> on Wednesday September 12 2018, @07:03PM (#733789) Homepage Journal

    That quoted line was talking about MicroUSB, not the round audio jack. Some people (Europe) tried very hard to make MicroUSB the one-and-only connector allowed - I'm glad they failed (the USB3 variants [wikipedia.org] of MicroUSB were especially atrocious.)

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