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Originally Posted by taibanl
- The better comparison would be (OEM BMW 30-pin Y cable, + OEM Apple adapter) vs OEM Lightning Y cable...
- I would at least hope the DAC in this is better than in the tiny adapter. We'll see.
- I'm not sure part of BMW's design spec is ensuring compatibility with the WMA1000 - and there are arguably better devices out there (air-enabler) that will accomplish the same thing with higher quality and will not require any adapter dongle.
To each, his own. |
The OEM and Amazon cables are electrically identical. The knockoffs do tend to fall apart.
The DAC in the BMW lightning cable is almost certainly worse than in the Apple adapter. Apple isn't known for skimping on analog circuitry. But I guarantee you that you won't notice one way or the other.
You're right that the air-enabler theoretically has better audio quality than the WMA-1000, but it also has nothing to do with Y cables and is thus irrelevant to the discussion.