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The DAC on the MacBook Pro Retina (Late 2012) till MacBook Pro with Touch Bar 2017 (Can't talk about future MacBook Pros) are generally very good, if you want to use the internal speakers or a normal pair of headphone with a 3.5mm plug.
The DAC is not designed for you to use the 3.5mm headphone out port to connect to High End headphones (No your Bose QC35s are not high end), or to an audio amplifier of any kind. That's just not what it was designed for. If it was, it would have had a different set of outputs, not a 3.5mm audio jack with integrated mic input.
There are a number of DACs on the market, but USB powered DACs generally don't warrant the extra expenditure. This may change in the future but I can't think of any USB Powered DAC that I would buy in January 2018. Please note that the Cord Mojo and AudioLab mini-DAC mentioned earlier are battery powered DACs.
Jan 26, 2018
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