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Keeping component count low? To do a 3.5mm jack you have to include a DAC of some sort. USB-C headphones come with their own.


Typically, USB-C headphones don't have a DAC, they just pass analog audio through the USB-C connector.


That depends a lot on the headphones and phone you're using there's annoyingly no real way to know exactly what usb-c audio method your phone and headphones are using and there are some annoying incompatibilities.

Either way they can use the USB-C jack to send digital data to headphones and cheaper ones just won't work because they're built for the analog passthrough version of usb-c audio.




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