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audiophile_lurker t1_j24gfr6 wrote

Reply to comment by youcancallmeBilly in Various amps and DACs over the years... by youcancallmeBilly

That’s some old kit there. I had an Indigo and a Bithead, did not expect to see these pop up. Reminder of how much worse the $100-150 options were back then (yet much better than standard laptop out).

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youcancallmeBilly OP t1_j24irsm wrote

It's amazing to see how far we've come over the years and then realize that we haven't really taken any big steps at all. I can't tell you how many times I've had to take that Supermacro 3 apart to clean up battery goo and here we are, still fighting batteries. Instead of leaking cells, now it's duty-cycles, capacities, and what feels like a planned obsolescence / intentionally disposable devices.

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audiophile_lurker t1_j24uymo wrote

True, although I think for a lot of use cases the space settled on things like the Apple Dongle. Cannot be bothered with batteries beyond my phone/

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youcancallmeBilly OP t1_j24wkh0 wrote

I think the apple dongle is the threshold to start. I mean, it's really quite good, and exception on a cost vs performance perspective.

So what do we get for money we spend over $9? Bluetooth? An absurd bit rate? Frustrating short battery life?

I've really grown to love the wireless charging. I have the mag safe on my desk and on my nightstand. Car isn't magsafe, but it's still wireless. That frees up the lightning port for fun stuff like amps that don't want to adhere to apple's low power requirements...

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audiophile_lurker t1_j26ag2z wrote

Is that just dealing with the single lightning port limitation on one of the Macbooks?

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youcancallmeBilly OP t1_j26bch4 wrote

I'm only using an iphone. Don't have any experience with these guys and macbooks.

We're all windows, too.

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