![]() The biggest question I had was: is this really better than the Apple headphone dongle?Īs an engineer, I had to believe it was. Why the Qudelix-5K over the others? Well, it has a nice pedigree, great features, it’s among the smallest (slightly bigger than a 9V battery) and it looked good enough. As commuting is becoming a thing again (at least in my state) I wanted to finally improve my portable audio since losing my beloved headphone jack so I went for the last one. ![]() The biggest players right now are probably the FiiO BTR5, the EarStudio ES100, the iFi Hip-DAC, and the quizzically named Qudelix-5K. We’ve seen some incredible new devices created to fill the vacuum, and they’re better than a headphone jack ever was and small enough to stay portable and unobtrusive. Now that I’ve tried some (well, one) of the innovations that have come to the portable audio market since the standardized removal of headphone jacks, I’m actually kind of thankful for Apple opening up this new market. ![]() Ever since I lost the headphone jack from my beloved iPhone SE (which I kept going through 4 years and 3 battery replacements) and 'upgraded' to an iPhone 12 Mini, I felt like something was missing from the new headphone dongle.
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