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RE: Adding Bluetooth to your system

Posted by AbeCollins (A) on June 19, 2024 at 09:19:56

In Reply to: RE: Adding Bluetooth to your system posted by Dawnrazor on June 18, 2024 at 08:09:08:

"Its fine for youtube vids" Exactly !!

Bluetooth is fine for YouTube or a secondary setup. I use Bluetooth headphones when I travel by air.

Bluetooth will always struggle to achieve the highest audio quality because Bluetooth inherently lacks the bandwidth to pass even true lossless CD quality audio.

ALL Bluetooth CODECs are lossy. You can use SBC, aptX, aptX-HD, aptX-Adaptive, AAC, LDAC, LHDC, LC3, etc etc.

Why so many different CODECs? Because developers have been trying for decades to achieve better sound by compressing and cramming audio data through the bandwidth limited Bluetooth pipe. They do that with various forms of lossy compression in the various CODECs above. Some sound better than others but they're all lossy compression schemes.

No serious primary audio setup will use Bluetooth but for YouTube or a secondary system, why not? It's convenient.

Edits: 06/20/24

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