Does anyone know if current Pixel/Samsung hardwarewill support this??

  • renohren@partizle.com
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, but that’s a headphone jack, so there is a DAC somewhere in the phone. The traditional 3.5 mm AUX port is meant to have no DAC behind it and is made to directly plug into an amplifier, I believe you and OP are talking about 2 different things.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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      1 year ago

      A 3.5mm port needs a digital-to-analog-converter (DAC). You can’t stream digital data over an audio port unless you use something like HDMI or TOSLink. You can’t feed that signal to a normal amplifier!

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        1 year ago

        A 3.5 mm AUX port on a digital only output device would need a DAC , thought I usualy only see a 3.5 mm headphone jack on those devices, rarely a 3.5 mm AUX port). Analogue capable devices sometimes had two 3.5 mm ports for ages, one for headphones using an internal amplifier (often pretty bad)and one to plug directly into an amplifier called the 3.5mm AUX. Sound wasn’t preamplified before the 3.5 mm AUX plug. That caused many people to confuse 3.5 mm AUX and 3.5 mm headphone jacks and wonder why the sound was barely within hearing range. I beleive OP got confused in the nomenclature.