I’ve been using my running headphones with my newest phone for a while now. They are okay, but hurt my ears after a few hours. The most comfortable headphones I have are old Shure SRH440… which only have a wired connection.
I found a USB to 3.5mm audio adapter on AliExpress (apparently from BLUEKAKA):
https://a.aliexpress.com/_EvvyelY
I also needed a 3.5mm to 2.5mm audio cable, since the one from the headphones are a huge coiled affair designed to prevent kinks in the cable… great for recording in a studio but not very handy when walking the dog.
After hooking everything up it seems to work well. Yay!
Anyway, I was just carrying everything around loose until I realized that it was small enough to just strap onto the headphones. I used a hairband that my wife left lying around to attach the adapter.
It looks really janky, so I’ll probably 3D print a nicer looking setup eventually.
Yeah I had the exact same experience. On the other hand, my $16 wireless earbuds have excellent audio quality. So it seems there are good cheap DACs out there, but also a lot of trash.
Yeah, I had decent, cheap, wireless earbuds, which made me think you could get something similar that could just act as a jack for wired headphones. Maybe they exist, but the one I tried was not it.