Do you have a source saying that the analog over lightning is being used here? Because the slide I posted in my other reply says it is "digital audio" over lightning, which I assume to be true for both lightning earpods and this adapter (though I very well could be wrong).
Articles about the Lightning headphone spec from a couple of years ago suggest that it only includes digital audio. They even specify a DAC that should be used.
I have doubts that the EarPods are digital also it's not stated anywhere.
Some of the lightning docks had some circuitry in them but no DACs.
The lightning to 30pin converter works with older DAC-less audio setups/docks.
Overall my hunch is that it's not digital only yet.
Hmm not sure most of the "digital" stuff was not about the earpods but about the wireless ones AKA the "AirPods"
The ones that come with the iPhone 7 in the box are the regular earpods we have now just with a lightning connector, there have also been a few videos going back to july about the 3.5mm connector some of them taken it apart it doesn't seem to have anything in it.
o.0 Did you click the link? It goes to right when he starts explaining Earpods switching to lightning, with "digital audio" written in the slide, and reiterating "digital audio" multiple times.
