Audiophiles are a lost breed. Over the years I have spent a fortune on audio gear, only to see most of the media formats slowly disappear into the streaming abyss.
DVD Audio, SACD, CD's, and even high bit rate streaming have slowly disappeared. It seems that audio quality is not important to the masses. Most wouldn't know a quality recording because they are listening to music on their phones or through cheap headphones. For most this is good enough.
I am thankful LP's still have some sort of following. Without the ability to purchase a 180gram vinyl recording of my favorites to play back on my two channel listening system, all would be lost. It's only a matter of time.
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I question the audio playback capabilities and sound quality coming from a phone. Are you sure you are getting the most out of your Nu force earbuds using a phone?
If you spend $10,000 on speakers, and then use a walkman to playback your audio, are you really getting audiophile quality sound?
Hey come on, less old snobbery here! It was less than 20 years ago that the majority of the world was using cassette tapes with badly fitted Dolby noise reduction, azimuth out of alignment, poor quality cheap turntables and AM radio!!! Along with VHS video tape.
Please, less of the negativity and more of the beautiful way that the internet & iTunes has enabled us to find specific tracks that we always wanted and can now travel the world listening to our favourite music and watch dolby vision films on our phones in dolby atmosphere surround sound whilst flying to an exotic destination!!!
I for one do not miss the old vinyl, CD, DVD days. No thanks. I've worked all of my life in studios & radio and you are truly truly wrong if you feel that a record is accurate at reproducing music. A analogue piece of vinyl played with a needle. Sorry buddy but your record does not sound anything like the studio master. I know, i've heard them since 2002.
A 256AAC Mastered for iTunes file can send bl**dy amazing. Broadcast quality. Don't be one of those people who talk bit rates just because someone else has. It's all about the mastering and who does the compression etc. Same for a 30mbps 4K HEVC iTunes film compared to a 75mbps 4K Disc - not much difference when the master is 2500mbps+ before compression!
Audio fanatics really need to get out more.
In a fairness, we've never had it so good with today's technology!!!
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LDAC owned by Sony who Gifted the Tech to Google to be used in Android.
aptX HD owned by Qualcomm so Apple will never pay to license it.
Both High resolution audio codecs. None supported by Apple.
So technically if you own an iPhone, you have the worst audio quality on the market.
Absolute bullsxxx!
The iPhone is the only 'phone' that every broadcasting house uses for journalists and broadcast use.
The fact the you are talking about android shows your lack of knowledge. No Android product has any form of audio finesse. It's just not written into Android.
Please don't waste peoples time.
