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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
The real problem with digital, at least with uniform PCM is that you store logarithmic data in a linear file format. Sure, adding a bit will add 6db to your dynamic range. But once you go to a more silent part of your music you lose resolution exponentially. A CD has 96db dynamic range on paper? You wish, since going to the range of -90db to -96db your resolution is one single bit - on or off in that whole 6db range - in practice completely unuseable.
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This is why nobody uses 16-bit audio for doing the actual recording; they move to 16 bits of precision only after they get the levels exactly right to maximize the amount of material that falls in the upper parts of that range.
To get back to the original subject, I think this is one of Apple's dumbest ideas to date. The Lightning connector was never designed to handle somebody dropping his or her phone with earbuds plugged into it.
I suspect that the average iPhone user breaks three or four pairs of wired earbuds over the three-year life of the device. Most of those break because of somebody yanking hard on the wires.
How many of those users are going to keep buying iPhones if they have to shell out $99 for an out-of-warranty repair to their Lightning jack every time they snag their headphone cord in something? I'm betting none, or very nearly none. So if Apple does this, it will probably be really, really bad for future iPhone sales.
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Originally Posted by Phogg
Devices long passed the point where a majority of users put their devices in cases not just to protect them, but to make them thick enough to hold comfortably. Bob J. Gear specializes in making silicone bumper cases for tablets and ereaders.
Thinner jumped the shark.
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You got that right.