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Originally Posted by Renate
The problem with tech is that they try to simplify things by glossing over them.
There are two forms of Type C headphone adapters: - A bunch of wires that leverages the audio DAC and amplifier already built into the device
- An audio DAC and amplifier that only presumes that this is all USB data
Considering that internet offers for the more expensive adapters run under $10, you should definitely experiment.
My Poke5 does not have analog output.
So I would need a DAC/amplifier type adapter. |
And also the the device needs to support USB Audio AND USB Host mode for the DAC type to work. For example a €6 PC USB stick works via a Micro USB2Go to USB-A socket (€6) on a PW3, but only if you downloaded two FW packs from Amazon for Voice View.
The support of simply wired audio via a USB-C socket and plug is very much newer hardware and while most Android from 5 to 13 on micro USB or USB-C will support the traditional DAC based USB Audio adaptor (same one as will generically work on Windows/Linux), few USB-C phones/tablets have the dumb cable adaptor and if the phone/tablet has a 3.5mm jack socket it won't.
There are some old smart watches that used cabled audio headphones on mini-USB and micro USB, but removing the jack socket and having a cable mode on the USB-C limits flexibility and adds confusion and isn't needed on a phone/tablet unlike a tiny watch (I have a cheap smart watch that has such a headphone via micro-USB, and unlike some popular watches it has a real SIM socket and real SD card socket under the clip-in replaceable battery. It also has a rubbish video camera. Voice dictation is OK and you can do voice calls with the tinny speaker built in!)