Yep, I&#x27;m assuming it comes with Lightning earbuds and if you want anything else you&#x27;re on your own.<p>Bluetooth earbuds would be a pretty hard sell if they come out and say &quot;We&#x27;re changing to Lightning for better audio quality. Here, have some bluetooth earbuds with worse audio than your old wired ones.&quot;<p>EDIT: How small can you make a decent DAC anyway? All the audio ones I&#x27;ve seen are way too big to put on an adapter cable, but that might be driven by the optical and RCA connectors more than the conversion hardware.