Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Here's one way to survive the iPhone headphone apocalypse

Apple’s anticipated removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack has drawn plenty of ire and consternation, and rightly so. Along with the jack-less Moto Z and LeEco’s 2016 lineup, the next iPhone is expected to be in the vanguard of a new generation of phones that lack a slot for the most universal of audio connectors. But there will be workarounds.

One pretty good idea will be to buy a Bluetooth receiver, such as the one I just stumbled upon from Noble Audio. These are the guys that made the ultra-luxurious (and expensive) Kaiser 10 in-ear monitors, and they’ve developed the Noble BTS as a solution to making them pseudo-wireless. You plug you wired earphones or low-impedance headphones into the BTS and it connects to your phone via Bluetooth,...

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