Earphones / Headphones: Where to try, what to buy?

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BrickMan

Is USB c just terrible for sound or do I have a bad phone? P20 Pro which generally is great, did try a Sony xz premium 1 and 2 but absolutely hated the shape of them. Had normal headphone Jack's though.
Mostly use in ear Sony jobs of 4 year vintage that were good at the time.
USB c you end up using an adapter and feel like what comes out of it is pretty poor (compared to old sony z series which had good output), trued a few peoples BT can and in ear jobs (non of real quality prob 30-50£ value and they all sound even worse, like honestly sounds like someone describing the sound to me through a toilet roll tube.

Or is there a USB c dac that would help sort it out?
Worst case scenario I just keep using my old phone for music.

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branwen in reply to @BrickMan

Any USB-C dongle has a DAC in it, so I would imagine the cheap one you get with the phone isn't going to be great.

Cheap BT is also a bit of a crap-shoot so it's not definitively the phone based on the info you've provided

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BrickMan in reply to @branwen

Had never even twigged that little adapter was even a dac, though USB c maybe had some way of knowing it had an analogue sound source being plugged into it so would output that when asked.
OK will start with a better dac dongle, cheers team

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