pippin wrote: > No, that's not entirely true. > While this is theoretically true of Bluetooth, it's not generally true > of Bluetooth Audio. Bluetooth Audio uses it's own codecs to encode and > decode the audio before and after the transmission and these can be VERY > lossy. > > CAN BE, because there ARE better ones but only very few devices support > them and to be used BOTH the sending and the receiving device have to > use these better codecs or Bluetooth falls back to the default ones > which are actually even much worse than mp3. > > Bluetooth for audio is NOT just a transport like ethernet or WiFi, it's > a system that includes audio conversion. > The same is true of AirPlay, but AirPlay these days uses the lossless > ALAC codec. > > So while you could build a Bluetooth connection between two computers > that just acts as a network and transmits whatever file format, that's > not what Bluetooth does if you connect audio devices.
.....and that is another reason for squeezeboxes , a transmission protocol designed to be lossless and bit-perfect and respect the source quality all the time . Not many other devices do that at this price level , there are ofcourse a bunch of specaliesed hifi streamers ,but the are to expensive and have other limitations . The masses don't care much for soundquality so other practicallities always trumps soundquality in such devices ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95977 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
