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Are Bluetooth headsets still much behind wired ones in terms of sound quality?

• vardump 8y ago
  As an owner of Bose QC35... yes. The headphones themselves sound pretty good. But when playing over bluetooth sometimes compression artefacts are audible. The artefacts are caused by the bluetooth protocol for stereo audio itself, so you're going to hear them even if you play FLAC files. Also latency is pretty horrible. 200 ms+, enough to be obvious.
  • akho 8y ago
    Bose QC35 are, I think, AAC and SBC only, so this is to be expected.
  • rvense 8y ago
    I think those are what I have at work. I'm quite sure they do a bunch of stuff of DSP/EQing to make them sound better than they are. When you turn the power off and use them as normal headphones they're mediocre at best.