Most flagship phones have removed the 3.5mm headphone jack, leaving you with poor options for audio quality.

USB-C is good for charging but bad for wired headphones: any little movement of the USB-C plug can cause the headphones and sound to disconnect. Bluetooth is also a lot poorer music quality compared to wired connections.

Why not just use your mobile phone ? (I’m not very knowledgeable about audio stuff)

I would if manufacturers stopped removing the 3.5mm jack from flagship phones.

Or if UBC-C wasn’t such a poor experience for wired headphones.

Good to know, thank you for sharing your experience! I may go with a different device and install Rockbox instead.

This is analog in the sense that it has a Digital to Analog "Cirrus Logic WM8523 DAC"converter and a 3.5mm headphone jack, so does indeed enable analog if you use a wired headphone, and it is absolutely a step in the right direction over shitty bluetooth quality audio.

I discovered Digital-to-Analog converters and vacuum tubes during the pandemic, replaced my whole setup for headphones and speakers after discovering Schiit Audio.

As a new linux user I was overwhelmed by plasma and all the choices. I much prefer an OS and DE that feels like it isn’t there and gets out of my way. It was all a bit too distracting, so I went back to Gnome like DEs (Cinnamon and now Cosmic).

Something like your suggestion, with basic settings first and then a deeper layer or toggle for advanced settings would have kept me on the platform longer.

Some Alternatives:

• Firefox + Ublock Origin
• Grayjay App
• Grayjay Desktop
• FreeTube
• NewPipe

“On 17 September 2019, the Japan Audio Society (JAS) certified LDAC with their Hi-Res Audio Wireless certification.”

Something something oxymoron. Bluetooth is trash, its why I still use wired whenever I can.