halfanothersdozen t1_iu2y3wj wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:59 AM

Bluetooth is slowly crawling along. I know it's not what people in this sub want to hear (heh) but I think it will get good enough to get to audiophile quality in a few years, especially with proper components in the receiving end.

chunkyfen t1_iu30elv wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:21 AM

Listen, 990kbps is plenty of quality for me!

Yammy_Lyfe OP t1_iu2zr13 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:14 AM

Are there still legitimate technical issues with Bluetooth? I sort of just assumed that would have been worked out by now.

Is the bottle neck related to transfer speed, or something else currently?

halfanothersdozen t1_iu32roj wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:46 AM

Well we can do gigabit wifi that can stream 4k Netflix to several screens at once but they're trying to squeeze the tech for audio into objects the size of airpods, batteries and drivers included. To be honest the hifi community hasn't truly pushed for the wireless space and so it has been optimizating for consumer products, but really the technology is there. It may or not be Bluetooth that does it but the non-blueooth options all still have problems for some reason. Eventually the shit's gonna click.

blargh4 t1_iu30fl4 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:21 AM

With the current specs Bluetooth's theoretical best-case data throughput (accounting for protocol overhead) is marginal for lossless CD-quality audio, and in the presence of interference/weak signal strength you don't get best-case throughput. And you would basically have to have the radio on the whole time, which would brutalize your battery life (especially with small earbuds, where you just have no space for a bigger battery).

NoDonut9078 t1_iu40j0u wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:57 AM

Best and lowest power option might be a trick from old iPods, throw some flash storage in each ear.

Instead of anti skip, it just keeps full bitrate songs