Originally Posted By: tfabris
Originally Posted By: larry818
Really. Just use bluetooth headphones.

The same people who have favorite headphones and who need that 3.5mm jack, they are also likely to care about audio quality.

Theorizing here, the audio quality crowd might be applauding if this rumor is true. It would allow the signal to remain digital all the way across the wire to the headphones and utilize a good DAC inside the headphones closer to the speakers.

Though it looks like the DAC inside the iPhones is already pretty good. With only rumors, and a handful of Lightning headphones in existence, hard to tell what would be better currently.