Tldw: it’s just serviceable but Darko Audio wish for it to be more powerful.
A lot of techies don’t seem to understand just how much Sony is pushing the camera functionality on XPERIA. It has a headphone jack to monitor audio while recording or to add a mic, just like a Sony Alpha camera. That it can be used for entertainment is the distant third place benefit for including it.
I think people started to realize it this year or so. Since Sony more or less did nothing to improve the output of the jack for like 4 generations now. I think two things happened that stopped people from realizing that.
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they brought back the jack the same year LG left more or less. This lead to a bunch of LG users wanting to go to Sony because they had similar hardware like the jack and expandable storage.
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people thought they would integrate their walkman lineup like they did with their camera lineup/tv lineup.
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