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> The maximum bandwidth for Bluetooth audio is 576kbps (aptX HD) 100% pure unadulterated USDA-certified Prime grass-fed gluten-free all natural organic free-ra
by netr0ute 4y ago
> The maximum bandwidth for Bluetooth audio is 576kbps (aptX HD)
100% pure unadulterated USDA-certified Prime grass-fed gluten-free all natural organic free-range BS, as the LDAC codec for BT comes in 330, 660, and 990kbps flavors and has even lower THD than aptX HD and an even wider frequency response (essentially to 20KHz). The catch is, only a few really recent and expensive chips have support for it, so almost nobody has heard (of) it, literally.
- MayeulC 4y agoSBC sounds really good too if you negociate a higher bitrate than the "high quality" profile. Sometimes called SBC- XQ, and most receivers support it.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoSBC is practically transparent at these bitrates anyway, or at least on the level of other 320kbps codecs. The differences are so inaudible that even listening tests have a hard time telling the different codecs apart. http://soundexpert.org/encoders-320-kbps http://soundexpert.org/encoders-320-kbps https://habr.com/en/post/456182/ https://habr.com/en/post/456182/ These talks about replacement, higher-bitrate codecs always have always been very dubious.
- netr0ute 4y agoThe trick is, though, even though SBC is only marginally worse than lossless, because it's the lowest common denominator codec, you tend to see it with worse DACs that also have to do with the end audio quality. When you use codecs like LDAC, you tend to also see them with high quality components that would make it seem like it's LDAC that's doing the work, but it's in reality just a bonus.
- jefftk 4y agoI'm glad there's an even higher bandwidth option I didn't know about! But at this point no one is hearing the difference, and this isn't a reason to go with wired over Bluetooth, as long as you can get hardware that supports a good enough codec.