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,...