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0 pointsstingraycharles9d ago0 comments

Most offerings (eg Apple Music) already has lossless audio for a while, as does Spotify, as it has been supported for the previous generation of AirPods Max already (ie this is not a new feature) and wirelessly on the AirPods Pro 2.

Why they don’t support it wirelessly on the AirPods Max 2, which should be a superior product to the AirPods Pro 2, is beyond me.

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nlitened8d ago

If I had to guess, I think it’s marketing — just like adding weights to the insides to make them feel more “premium”.

I’d guess that the target audience would argue that real lossless music experience requires high-bandwidth wires, and is not possible over the air without degradation.

stingraycharlesOP8d ago

But that’s the thing, apparently it’s not using Bluetooth but actually uses their new wireless chips to transmit the data over radio (maybe it uses WiFi, maybe something else). So it’s not using Bluetooth, which doesn’t have enough bandwidth for lossless.

I don’t think “it’s just marketing” is the reason, Apple always positioned themselves as the premium option with these things. Being the only wireless lossless headphone would be right on Apple’s expected feature list.

dijit8d ago

Without reading anything further into it “data over radio” describes bluetooth, and wifi, and 2.4GHz proprietary protocols and… basically everything.

You could still be talking about bluetooth and it would still be “data over radio” technically.

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