Bluetooth 4.2 LE currently supports transfers @ 260 kbps. Now we all know that a 320 kbps bitrate is perfectly adequate for most audio streaming situations....
Well, Bluetooth 5.0 is going to be widely released soon and supports 520 kbps. Will this eliminate the "BT audio is shit" argument? Will we finally have some quality wireless earbuds?
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Can't tell the difference between wired and wireless on my mdr100x through LDAC 2bh
>>58865270
Because Bluetooth compression is shit and that requires recompression to stream to devices. The chips don't have mp3 decoders in them so the audio will be decodes and reencoded to transfer to the headphones.
Even if they do have mp3 decoders each ear only needs one channel, so it would be pointless to stream the audio file as is to the phones. So no matter what, recompression is going to take place under some shitty quality codec that you have no control over.
>>58865270
> Will this eliminate the "BT audio is shit" argument?
Maybe. We'll see it then.
>>58865270
Apple's endgame is wireless everything. Until then, have fun with dongles.
>>58865503
In the case of AAC (as opposed to MP3), doesn't the iThing you play the file from just stream the file to the pods? That's what internal docs (which I don't have anymore since I got shitcanned from the fruit) indicated.
>>58865594
Quite unlikely, streaming the file itself is really cumbersome for controls from the device.
>>58865594
>>58865632
A2DP has been doing direct passthrough of MP3 and AAC for years now.
Anyone who tells you Bluetooth is shit for audio bought crappy headphones.
>>58865270
Learn from this apple.
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