That said, the switch to USB-C could have indirect implications on how we consume higher-quality music on iPhones.Įver since Apple started offering hi-res streams on Apple Music, we have wondered why Apple hasn’t cashed in and launched its own DAC – one of a higher quality than its fundamentally crude Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter (which is essentially a DAC and low-power amplifier that arguably acts as more of an 'enabler' than an 'improver'). With rumours of iPhones switching from a Lightning port to USB-C next year, we have pondered whether this will change things or increase support to, say, 192kHz? Directly, it won't – a connection is a connection and it’ll come down to whether Apple allows the DACs inside its future iPhones and/or adaptors to passthrough higher than 48kHz sample rates uncompressed. Will that be the case forever? We hope not.
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Of course, we’ll be the first to admit that connecting external kit to your iPhone 13 isn’t the most elegant solution, but if you want to hear the full original resolution of your hi-res files through your iPhone above and beyond 24-bit/48kHz, using an external DAC with your iPhone really is the only way to go. Remember, a number of these DACs usually have ways of indicating what sample rate is being played, so you can make sure your headphones are being fed the best sound quality possible from your files.
That might be a touch overkill and punishingly transparent for an iPhone, but these are hi-res files, after all. You could combine the Chord Hugo 2 DAC with a pair of Beyerdynamic T1 (3rd Generation) headphones for a more premium set-up. Don’t be afraid to build up to a more revealing system. This is just a starting point, of course. Next, you need a decent DAC such as the Audioquest DragonFly Cobalt, Cyrus soundKey or Chord Mojo 2 and a good pair of headphones, such as the Grado SR325x, Shure Aonic 3 or Austrian Audio Hi-X55.
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Recently we have also started to include Stereo and Multichannel FLAC 192 and FLAC 96 download options.First, you’ll need to invest in Apple’s Lightning-to-USB camera adapter (£29) which forms a link between your iPhone and a third-party DAC.
At the NativeDSD Music Store, we offer the following ‘highest’ resolution audio formats, namely: DSD 512, DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64, DXD (352.4kHz), and PCM 384kHz. These are the six audio file formats that can be referred to as “High Resolution Audio”: DSD (dff), DSD (dsf), WAV, AIFF, FLAC, and ALAC. It refers to music files that have a higher sampling frequency and/or bit depth than a Regular CD, which is 16 bit / 44.1 kHz.
High Resolution Audio is the same as Hires Audio, High-Res Audio, and Hi-Res Audio. These are created from the DSD and DXD editions of these albums using the unique “Zephiir” conversion process created by Bit Perfect which produces exceptionally high quality FLAC files.
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In the year 2020, the Canadian company BitPerfect provided the software NativeDSD uses to convert DSD Stereo and DSD Multichannel files to 24/96 and 24/192 FLAC for listeners interested in those music formats.
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