You haven’t heard of alt tab I’m guessing?

Again it’s more that you’re spending money on headphones, DACs and amps. Why use lossy audio formats? You’re literally wasting money on the amps and DACs at that point

LDAC isn’t lossless dude.

It’s just fact dude

Dude I’ve already tested CD vs Spotify vs Apple Music.

Question is what did you record them on?

Point was that the masters of a particular song will be the same regardless so the same file in FLAC vs say MP3 will have the same bad master. The FLAC will still sound the better of the two

Dude Spotify isn’t near the same as FLAC. It’s worse than AAC at a lower bitrate

And if they can’t master for lossless then they’re not going to be able to do it for sub CD quality either will they?

If you did a blind test between oggs and a lossless file like a FLAC or ALAC people would be able to tell. Point is if you’re spending money on shit you don’t need like amps why would you not just get a better source when it’s readily available.

Generally lossless files are mastered better. That’s why apple has its digital masters or “mastered for iTunes” badge as they’re mastered for lossless playback

Lossless is better? That’s well established. But even then I’m not saying everyone should have a library of 24 bit FLAC files it’s just competing services have lossless audio if you want it as standard. Buying hugest end equipment and not using the service that has the better audio uplift just seems a bit dumb

It’s ogg Vorbis, I was shortening it.

It’s efficient but it doesn’t sound good vs other options that offer lossless audio streaming

It’s Oggs so yes it is. Codec matters

It’s a shit platform for audio quality? Not really a secret.

Just seems dumb to spend money on headphones and amps to then put in shit it. As the saying goes shit in shit out

It’s really not. There’s a marked difference between Apple Music and Spotify that you can tell on earbuds and that’s before you get into lossless downloads

Because you’re being dumb. If someone wants a GPU for example to play CSGO at 1080p on a 60Hz monitor and they’re asking what 4090 is best people are obviously going to tell them that it’s a massive waste of money. Aikido for 0.7seconds of latency is just dumb. Pretty much any decent Bluetooth headset is comfortably below that. My QC45s are under half a second but they’re shit for gaming

But you’re listening to Spotify…

What good is that? That’s like nearly a second of latency you need like 1/20th if that to stop it being jarring

You want low latency headphones with good sound quality. Bluetooth means you cannot get low latency headphones. You need to be looking at wireless headsets that work via Wi-Fi if you want wireless and even then you’re getting poor quality audio and mic.

Not really? Bluetooth headphones aren’t meant for gaming and there’s reasons. You can get a 3m long wire if you really need it and any decent open backs will be better for gaming and any wired mic will beat a bluetooth solution. Like the old included EarPods apple used to ship with phones have better mice than any Bluetooth headphone I’ve heard.

You can get a ok get wire you know?

You want to game whilst around a corner from your monitor?

Bluetooth is laggy no matter how hard you try, the mic will also be shit. The sound will also be shit compared to wired. A wired headset is better in every way and why do you need wireless to be sat in one spot?

Use wired.