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The signal is digital until it gets to the speaker so there is no loss of quality after the initial encoding, which might itself be lossless. Some systems (eg S
by jsmith99 4y ago
The signal is digital until it gets to the speaker so there is no loss of quality after the initial encoding, which might itself be lossless. Some systems (eg Sonos) can stream lossless audio or even 24 bit 192 khz, which is certainly overkill.
- malermeister 4y agoWith some wireless systems (Bluetooth comes to mind), there's a lossy reencoding between playback device and speaker too!
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoLossy, but at >300kbps.... this is not going to be the part that introduces most artifacts.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> The signal is digital until it gets to the speaker so there is no loss of quality after the initial encoding, which might itself be lossless. This ain’t true - for example Bluetooth is lossy compression. ‘Digital’ doesn’t mean lossless from the source.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoYou are conflating compression and verbatim copying which are two different things and obviously not what they're talking about.
- chrisseaton 4y agoWhat they said: > The signal is digital until it gets to the speaker so there is no loss of quality after the initial encoding isn't true - the original encoding is decoded... and re-encoded, losslessly, by the Bluetooth protocol.
- djmips 4y agoWho said they were talking about Bluetooth. It sounds like they were talking about a proprietary system like Sonos Wifi.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> Who said they were talking about Bluetooth. Literally says ‘Bluetooth’ in the original comment.
- djmips 4y agoOriginal comment. "and then sent over Wifi or Bluetooth" the information about lossless was informative.