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I don't think your experience is representative. The wired headphone business is booming.

     If am doing high-fidelity listening using good headphones, I'm not playing the audio from my phone anyway; I am at home with my proper audio equipment.
Audio quality over headphones is typically a thing that Apple does really well. Objectively measured, the iPhone's DAC and headphone amp are darn good: http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/iphone-6-plus.htm#measureme...

The built-in amp may be lacking in power if you're using hard-to-drive headphones.

    Bluetooth [...] high-fidelity
I've read that Bluetooth headphones that support the AAC codec sound great (theoretically this can avoid transcoding if your music is AAC) although they're few and far between.


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