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I love that Apple is breeding a new generation of gullible audiophiles by selling $550 wireless headphones that only work with devices running the latest version of MacOSpic.twitter.com/59LJ0wbzu1
to be slightly fair here, virtually every pair of bluetooth headphones on the market sucks to a shocking degree, even from audiophile brands, but this is dramatically above the cost of the competition and they don't even mention whether the audio is lossless or the latency
but i actually like what Apple has been doing with pushing AAC for Bluetooth audio instead of the Qualcomm proprietary bullshit everyone else uses
right, i mean more that they talk about the custom chips and teraflops and all of that, so you'd think with that much hardware they could say "lossless audio". i'm guessing it's not lossless, but if the quality is high enough that's fine. is it even bluetooth?
When connected to Apple devices, the AirPods actually use a custom Bluetooth profile where they do narrowband SBC over Bluetooth LE for voice and AAC over Bluetooth.
They can do both at the same time too, so it doesn't have the annoying problem of music falling back to SBC as soon as an app tries to use a microphone, like on Android/everything else.
Qualcomm sells aptX HD as "near lossless". It maxes out at 576kbit/s, but you can't compare bitrates across codecs like that. Opus would probably be comparable at 128kbit/s, it's just that you can't put it in a wireless headphone and expect reasonable battery life.
"it does not hesitate to use CPU to give you the best quality encoding at a given bitrate" "aptX HD can encode a 48 kHz 16-bit stereo audio stream using only 10 MIPS on a modern RISC processor with signal processing extensions."
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