AirPods Pro and lossless audio
Will the AirPods Pro Bluetooth connection to lossless give you audio above 256kb aac or will it be 256kb max?
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AirPods and Bluetooth do not support hi resolution audio.
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No.
Apple’s official statement:
- How can I listen to lossless audio?
- You can listen to lossless audio using the latest Apple Music app on an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV.7 Turn on lossless audio in Settings > Music > Audio Quality. You can choose between Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless for cellular or Wi-Fi connections. Note that Hi-Res Lossless requires external equipment such as a USB digital to analog converter.
I really don’t know about iPhone and AirPods, but I’ve connected AirPods Pro to MacBook Pro (early 2015), in MIDI settings you can set 24bit/48 kHz output settings. Listening to such music (I’ve got it downloaded in hi-res, played through vlc player, assuming similar process with Apple Music application for Mac and lossless release in June) actually sounded way better than listening to aac streamed from Apple Music. I hope this partly answers your question.
Yes I understand that, but wondered if they would sample at a higher bit rate than the currently do? So if current iTunes is 256kb, lossless is 1400kb, but Bluetooth can support say 700kb, will we get a higher quality compressed stream using AirPods if the music on the device is lossless?
Again, thanks for the reply but that’s not what I’m asking. I know I can’t get lossless, I’m just asking if higher bitrate files on the phone will allow better quality lossy streaming to AirPods than we get currently.
AirPods Pro and lossless audio