Bluetooth LDAC music using iPhone

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Bluetooth LDAC music using iPhone

I want to use LDAC to Bluetooth music from my

iPhone X to Sony WF-1000XM4. I gather LDAC provides the highest quality sound

using Bluetooth. I note that LDAC has not historically been supported by Apple,

but I gather this might have changed. Can you please provide clarification. I

have read that switching to LDAC is possible on iPhones (perhaps only iPhone

12) via the developer app but one needs a Mac to do this or can I do this with

an ipad pro. Can you please provide clarification.

iPhone 4s, iOS 9

Posted on Jun 30, 2021 9:54 PM

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Adverseselection Author

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Jul 3, 2021 9:34 PM in response to Dogcow-Moof

Is there a codec Apple does support which provides sound quality via bluetooth which is equivalent quality to LDAC?

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Dogcow-Moof

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Jul 3, 2021 10:02 PM in response to Adverseselection

Sound quality is subjective, but Apple’s high quality BT codec, AAC, maxes out at a much lower bitrate than LDAC, so I suspect the answer to your question is no, at least right now.

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Jul 7, 2021 9:07 PM in response to Dogcow-Moof

I disagree - an important aspect of digit sound quality is the sampling rate. Much below CD quality sampling rate and the drop in sound quality is audible to most anyone. If I recall correctly MP3 has about 1/8 of the data of a CD. Even if a Codec samples at 2 times this rate it still is 1/4 the sample rate of a CD, which is by no means the highest sample rate out these

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