Re:Don't Buy into Apple's Hype About AirPods Max Gaining Los...
by mingus88 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:26PM
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Apple Music will not stream 24/96 to you if you are not using compatible equipment
But it’s nice to have the option because even my wife, who doesn’t care about audio at all, can immediately tell if my home theater is playing a DTS-MA track or an AAC track. We have a pretty modest 5.1 setup from a aperion audio. High quality audio formats are not flim flam in and of itself.
LDAC is actually a great codec and I understand it’s available to every android device, so thank you to Sony for inventing it. It’s indistinguishable to me against a flac file over wired connections. And I actually can tell the difference with lesser codecs.
I cannot tell the difference above CD quality audio, and even still not reliably at lower quality. That doesn’t mean it’s worthless.
But it’s nice to have the option because even my wife, who doesn’t care about audio at all, can immediately tell if my home theater is playing a DTS-MA track or an AAC track. We have a pretty modest 5.1 setup from a aperion audio. High quality audio formats are not flim flam in and of itself.
LDAC is actually a great codec and I understand it’s available to every android device, so thank you to Sony for inventing it. It’s indistinguishable to me against a flac file over wired connections. And I actually can tell the difference with lesser codecs.
I cannot tell the difference above CD quality audio, and even still not reliably at lower quality. That doesn’t mean it’s worthless.