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Ctrl-F “lossless”, “24”, “ALAC” on the tech specs page. No results. I am no audiophile, and I don’t really care about lossless audio one way or the other, but
by ryeights 4y ago
Ctrl-F “lossless”, “24”, “ALAC” on the tech specs page. No results.
I am no audiophile, and I don’t really care about lossless audio one way or the other, but it seems deceptive to plaster “Apple Lossless” all over the Apple Music app when no Apple headphones can play lossless audio. All the marketing talk about the audio improvements in the H2 chip seems designed to obscure this fact, and to compensate for the fact that the AirPods Pro 2 are technically inferior to other Bluetooth headphones that support lossless playback.
- initplus 4y agoJudging a headphone by specific codec support just doesn't make sense. Support for acoustically transparent codecs is good enough. Nobody has every demonstrated an ability to reliably distinguish high bitrate mp3 or AAC from lossless. There are still benefits to lossless from a preservation perspective, but for actually listening to music it really doesn't matter.
- nicce 4y agoAnd the main problem is in Bluetooth protocol. It barely handless lossless data even in non-BLE mode. Which drains the battery.
- sfvegandude 4y agoI agree it's totally deceptive, and unbecoming of Apple. And to correct my earlier statement, Apple makes no claim that these support lossless. Which means, basically, you're stuck with their $9 DAC if you want lossless (though that little thing is surprisingly good).