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    20 days ago

    There’s a push for Opus now, it’s the perfect codec for Bluetooth because it’s a singular codec that fits the whole spectrum from low bandwidth speech to high quality audio, and it’s fully free

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      Opus is great, but there is no option to make it lossless, like what WavPack (also a free-as-in-freedom codec) provides for example.

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        Transparency is good enough, it’s intended to be a good fit for streaming, not masters for editing

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          Why not have the option for true lossless available so that Bluetooth can be scaled up to sound good on even the highest end of systems.

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            You literally can not distinguish 192 Kbps Opus from true lossless. Not even with movie theater grade speakers. You only benefit from lossless if you’re editing / applying multiple effects, etc, which you will not do at the receiving end of a Bluetooth connection.