How to become an iPhone Audiophile: Complete Guide



Many audiophiles use their iPhone as their main portable music player despite its limitations. In this video, we’ll look at how to squeeze the best possible sound quality out of your iPhone.

Products featured in this video:

Apple lightning to 3.5mm adapter:
Apple lightning to USB camera adapter:
Apple lightning to USB camera adapter with charging input:

Dragonfly Red DAC:
iFi Hip DAC:…

26 thoughts on “How to become an iPhone Audiophile: Complete Guide

  1. I recently purchased the dragonfly red as I wanted to check out Apple lossless and hi-res. Have to say I’m blown away by it on both iPhone and iPad so much so I’m upgrading headphones to go with it.for about £150 so far I have perfect lossless music

  2. Really helpful. I'm thinking about if I could use Apple Music (with lossless) as both my streamer and my file player, rather than having Qobuz for Streaming and something else for playing downloaded files (at home, too, in a dedicated device attached to my big stereo). Thanks for this!

  3. You forgot to mention the FIIO BTR5 Is actually the best solution, I got the audio cable the Fiio LT-LT1 Type-C to Lightning OTG from AliExpress 17 Euros and I can get to24/96 khz. NO NEED FOR DONGLES, Let's keep it simple.

  4. Hi, thanks for your guide on audiophile topic.

    do you have any plan to test out some of popular iem in the market such as fiio, moondrop, or even established brand such as sony and sennheiser ?

    I'm new to audiophile topic, and I would like to know more about 'reference' type iem and 'fun' sounding iem. difference between 'bright' sounding to 'warm' sounding.

    what's the pros and cons of selecting well established brand like sennheiser or choosing chi-fi brand such as kz and moondrop.

    sorry if the request and suggestion is too long. I just had so many question to this new hobby. anyway, looking up for your future videos, hope you and family stay healthy during pandemic.

  5. Thx for this video. I was quite happy to learn at 4:20 of this video that the Apple lightning-to-3.5 mm jack converter is capable of converting 24 bit / 48 kHz audio to analog without a loss. Based on another video of Audio Fixation (https://youtu.be/SRrOCoEBcqM), I understand this is actually better than CD quality (16 bit / 44.1 kHz). However, when I connect my B&W P7 wireless to my iPhone X by cable using this converter, the audio I get, for example, from Spotify's High quality (160 kb/s) sounds slightly muffled compared with the audio I get when I connect the P7 again by cable to 3.5 mm jacks of either my iMac or MacBookPro.

  6. from an audiophile that owns airpodmaxes I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss them… I enjoy my pair as much as any of my other cans which include all the usual suspects … the audio quality is perfectly fine (please everyone go abx test yourselves)

  7. Use of the words "bit perfect" can often be miss understood. Yes matching the sample rate is important but getting the same untouched bits as Qobuz is impossible with Apple.Music right now.

  8. Now we have lossless and hi res. I really want to get a DAC and connect my iPad to it and to my hifi set up. And then, control the music on the iPad from the iPhone. But I’ve searched and can’t find a way 🙁 I looked at Roon which would have done the job but I use Apple Music :-/

  9. Hi thank you for your video ! I have a question (maybe dumb but f*ck it) : is any lighting dongle to usb-A/jack are okay or do I have to buy the one from Apple (which is quite expensive) ? Because I don't really know if it does have an impact or not.

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