I think it has to do with a direct WiFi connection between your phone and the headphones. This is completely separate from having a WiFi connection between your phone and the access point (work, coffee shop, home).

Modern Qualcomm SoCs can easily maintain two WiFi connections. So you can connect to the Internet via WiFi and at the same time set up a WiFi hotspot and share your Internet connection with another device.

But the “more range” point escapes me a bit unless we’re talking about Auracast (introduced with Bluetooth 5.3, a type of streaming, think silent disco headphones) where using WiFi makes more sense.

For better sound quality: That’s the marketing talk. After all, Qualcomm has already shown that with AptX Lossless, you can use almost the full bandwidth of Bluetooth for audio streaming (instead of the little bandwidth the specs officially allow). AptX Lossless uses a 1.2 Mbit/s lossless codec. For comparison, an audio CD is 1.4 Mbit/s, and if you compress it or use common lossless compression, you’ll also get about 1.2 Mbit/s or less.
Sony does lose data with LDAC, but at a maximum rate of 990 kbit/s, which is a very high loss rate. More than these two solutions, how useful is it? Who the hell is going to hear the difference? Especially in situations where Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) is desirable, so you will always have different sounds and distractions.

192kHz is completely overrated to the human ear, so this desire is so pure you could slap a nice marketing sticker on it..

[Reactie gewijzigd door Jazco2nd op 26 oktober 2023 13:35]