Hello everyone,
So I know my question is probably going to sound silly, but I'm a not-quite-audiophile-yet-guy, and I would just like to know how these things work.
So, I read that phones' factory-built-in digital to analog converters do not do justice to your audio quality. So, I looked up a few portable DACs, which in theory would improve the sound quality from your phone. One question that came to my mind is how it would function. You plug your DAC into your USB port (I guess?),and that factory-machinery simply get's out of the way so that your new extra toy does its job? I assume, another factor is wether or not your phone has a headphone jack, since if it does not, then the USB-port has the DAC, too, as far as I'm concerned. I read sometime in a random comment section, that in some case, you have to manually disable your phone's DAC in order to make the external one function.
I know, this is a super stupid question, so sorry about that '
. At this point, I do not plan yet on buying such gadget (seeing the prices). Is it worth it, though...? (Currently, I listen to .flac's on my jack-less phone with cheap Sennheiser earbuds, but I would like to step up my game one day.)
Thanks in advance