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Pro users use audio interfaces. The headphone jack is useful for quick improvised sketching or listening but Apple's official dongle will be fine in those situations as well. It's actually a pretty well made DAC for its size: https://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qu...

For any serious work you'll probably be around a decent audio interface anyway.

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I've got several high end audio interfaces, but they're not much use on a plane or a train.

Attach the adapter to your headphones. Done.

Yes, it's slightly more inconvenient but I wouldn't dismiss the whole product due to a missing port few people (including me) use these days.

It is attached to my studio cans, but that doesn't solve any of the problems I outlined above about varied audio quality between different adapters etc.

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