Maybe just using a type c headphone will work?? 🤷♂️
Discussion
There's a small catch.
USB-C wired headphones have a built-in DAC and amp inside the cable/earpiece.. digital circuits that can create EM noise near your head.
With an external adapter, the DAC stays in the dongle, away from you.
Only clean analog audio travels through the wire to your ears.
I was wondering about this. I have both the adapter and the EarPods. Do they really put the dac in the earpiece and not at the USB-C end?
When you use USB-C/Lightning wired earphone,
The DAC (digital-to-analog converter) & amplifier are built inside the headphone cable/earpiece housing itself that converts digital → analog
Those digital circuits can generate local electromagnetic noise near your ear.
When using an adapter, the DAC sits entirely inside the dongle, away from your head.
The output is analog only, flowing through copper wire to your earphones.
That's why using 3.5mm adapter > using earphones with built-in DAC