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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by brookside on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:51PM (#15538621)
I agree with all of this, but the knock on bluetooth sound quality doesn't fall into this category of audiophile foolishness.

It's real & severe downsampling, and incredibly noticeable.

Bluetooth 5 should have the bandwidth to solve this problem.

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by dpkonofa on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:23PM (#15546894)
While I get what you're saying, I only find this drop in quality on really cheap Bluetooth headphones/headsets. I have tried 2 "high-end" wireless headphones (1 of which are my AirPods that I own) and I find no downsampling or quality loss that's noticeable.
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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by chrischen on Monday October 23, 2017 @10:42PM (#15538810)
On airpods there’s so much background noise and lack of sound isolation the quality drop won’t make a difference.
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