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blargh4 t1_iu4oxo1 wrote

Depends on which lossy codec your connection uses, and whether your source material will compound multiple lossy compression steps . SBC (the standard-enforced bluetooth codec everything must support) is garbage sound quality wise to me, optimized for power efficiency on brain dead hardware. The other codecs sound better but they have patchy support between vendors. Their audible effect on sound quality tends to be overblown.

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stankworm OP t1_iu5vx4t wrote

I generally just use Amazon musics ultra HD for the most part which I believe is supposed to be lossless? Not positive.

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blargh4 t1_iu6192l wrote

Well, if it's showing the HD icon anyway, sometimes it drops down to a lossy stream and then it starts to sound pretty chewed up. But if your music is only getting one whack of decent quality lossy compression (and 256kbps AAC is more than decent), the difference will be subtle enough to matter to only the most obsessive audiophiles.

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