New products and a new connector, with a high price charged by Apple to make your old products work with the new connection, lightning.

To be honest, I really like the new connector. It is reversible, light and looks rather neat. I don’t like the £25-30 cost of the adapter or adapter cable.

However, it may be time to show some love towards the 30 pin adapter. Why, well actually it’s a complex piece of kit. More importantly its has a Wolson Micro High Performance WM8533 Digital to Analogue Chip inside. In addition there is a Cirrus Logic audio chip with markings CL1I596A0. There are also a number of other micro components inside.

The Wolson DAC is a great little number and great at converting the audio from digital to analogue. And it is of reasonable quality.

Is the cost of the adapters still justified. Not really, but at least you can quote chip name and numbers and feel slightly better about it.