Apple Headphone Dongle Sound Quality

Works fine at half the price of Apple's dongle.

I like this headphone because of quality and sound performance.

Works fine at half the price of Apple's dongle

If you use the apple headphone adapter, you can also use it with iPhone X

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Apple took away the headphone port, but sold me a lightning to 3.5 adapter so I could use my wired buds with my iPhone 13 Pro. Imagine my disappointment when my battery ran low while I was listening to a favorite playlist and I needed to unplug my buds to re-juice the phone! I’m happy to report it performed exactly as I’d hoped when I tested it. Good clear sound through the truck’s sound system while charging at what seems to be a normal rate. This is the one that works!

This thing is microscopic. I bought another USB-C dongle with separate mic and headphone jacks. It is bulkier and definitely has limited frequency response though the headphone jack. This, on the other hand, is as small as it could possibly be, and produces flawless audio with no hiss. That's impressive, given that this obviously isn't an exotic digital-to-analog chip set, and the device is so inexpensive.

This comes as a two part device. It is a very good sounding TRS plug-in-power mic, and an inexpensive USB audio dongle with an input and a headphone output. It is NOT a TRRS device (which I think it said it was somewhere), and a trrs is only generally used for something with both a headphone and a mic. The mic sounds very good, any self noise well below the living room background noise, good sensitivity. I used it with a handheld recorder which supplies about 2.5 volts, which is required by this condenser mic. I suspect that the ring on the TRS plug is not connected to anything, just there to avoid contact with something that could cause a problem. On this windows 7 computer, the USB device did not work, and I was not going to use it anyway, so I am only reporting on the microphone. I did not troubleshoot the USB dongle, could have been a reboot or something would fix it. I suspect previous reviewer (Karen) had either a defective device, or misunderstood how to use it, or had the same trouble I had with the USB part.

Does exactly what you’d expect it to do. Dongle dongle y’all.

I love OWC - Apple-level build quality, design and functionality at a fraction of the price. This unit keeps my MacBook Pro fully charged during intensive video editing and graphic compositing/rendering. Love the SD slots in the front, the headphone jack seems to work better for me than the internal MacBook headphone port, just an all around great purchase, thank you!

This is hands down the greatest headset I’ve ever tried. I’m picky about sound quality too. I tried all of the nicest premium gaming headsets Best Buy had to offer and this headset is so much nicer. The sound quality is amazing, I’m shocked it’s wireless. The noise cancellation is great, it also has a built in mic so you don’t have to use the one that detaches. The range is fantastic. At first I had connected it to my pc using Bluetooth and I thought it was great. I was limiting my experience though not using the usb dongle it comes with to connect it properly. Once that usb dongle was connected, wow! The headset is amazing! The Audeze app is fantastic for adjusting the headset to your preference.