Airpod Max - wired connectio

[GumaRodak]

Hi, i have bought recently airpods max and wondering how to connect them by cable to iphone without jack, to listen to the “close to the lossless” quality.
Looks like i need two dongles right?
From ligtning to the jack and jack to lightning. Since both dongles have converter inside i am scratching my head here how efficient they are
Or is there any other cable to avoid 2x dongle?

 

[Julien]

In a nutshell the Max's (or more correctly the optional ADC cable) convert music to 256kbps AAC for the Max's internal DSP. Using BT is the highest quality possible. Using the 2 different (one is DAC and the other ADC) is just a waste of money and unnecessary conversion (and through "cheap" converters) just to get to the SAME lossy 256kbps AAC music.

Here is a thread you can rad through too.

Lightning to 3.5mm -any point to buy?

For any music quality increase; if the dongle and internal codec for the AirPods Max limit the ability to play higher music quality?

forums.macrumors.com

 

[GumaRodak]

Thanks for that link. On the apple support page is mentioned, that via the cable a close to lossless can be achieved

 

[Julien]

....close to lossless can be achieved

I was close to winning the lotto last week. That is just Apple spin. There is Lossy or Lossless period. Close means lossy. As CLARLY stated in the article the cable is a (cheep) ADC and converts all analog to lossy AAC 256kbps.