• ElectroLisa
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    2 months ago

    To my knowledge it’s lossless in CD quality only, in high-res modes it becomes lossy

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      It’s nearly lossess if you can connect and maintain a 990kbps connection, but it still doesn’t have enough bandwidth to do it truly lossless. I think it would require 1411kpbs to be actually lossless. It is still better than any codec I know of for bluetooth as far as that does, but bluetooth just kinda sucks for that sort of application.

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        2 months ago

        1411 kbps before compression. FLACs can go as low as 200 kbps based on the content of a file

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          2 months ago

          Interesting. If that is so, then I am surprised that neither actually support actual lossless at that res without blowing up the noise floor.

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      FLAC is a lossless compression format. It will reduce file size but keeps the audio quality. So-called “high-res” format on streaming platform like spotify (mandatory fuck spotify here) are usually mp3 320kbps so heavily compressed and lossy, indeed.