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ericthehalfbee said:

These headphones have a lot of great reviews. And reviewers who have spent time comparing the Cipher to a direct connection have commented that there's a noticeable difference in quality (most likely due to the AMP portion of the Cipher cable being more properly matched to the drivers or specific processing in the DSP, rather than DAC quality).


However, I take exception with this comment:

[quote]battery life could become a concern when listening for more than a couple hours, depending on volume and audio presets[/quote]


From my recollection, Lightning ports can only supply 20mA of current to external devices. At 20mA these headphones are not going to affect battery life at all. This also bring up another concern I have - that 20mA isn't enough current to drive really high-end headphones to significant volumes. Which is why I expect Apple to relax this limit and allow more current if they plan on moving forward with Lightning headphones (say 50mA or even 100mA).

Did you do any battery life tests to compare the Cipher cable to a direct connection?

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