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Kuo: AirPods Pro 2 to Feature Lossless Support and Sound-Emitting Charging Case
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Ouch, rub it in
. But a least I didn't pay $550.00 for them . Has there ever been any other Apple hardware that became outdated so quickly (assuming this new tech. happens)?
I'm not a fan of spacial audio for music listening. I call it "spaced out" audio
. I did like it for some movie watching, on new movies. However, to my ears it gets really weird sounding on old movies/old television series. For instance The Saint.Ouch, rub it in
AirPods Max is not outdated. There will be a new one to play lossless.
Perhaps it will be less expensive the 2nd time around. Maybe Apple priced current AirPods Max higher to signify quality.
I’d pay $399 (or wait till it goes on sale) for a sport version that supports lossless and is weather resistant.
This conversation about lossless audio on airpods pro makes about as much sense as the megapixel competition on point and shoot cheap cameras, i.e. none at all. Airpods pro just aren't fabulous headphones, at best they are kinda low grade average, so who cares if they receive slightly more data from the source? Even if the dynamic range of the data is massive, the headphones just aren't equipped to deliver it, and i really doubt version 2 will suddenly change that to give us the wow factor. There are so many great sounding headphones out there, ones that blow your socks off; even bluetooth ones that are a million times better than airpods pro such as the latest Sony ones, so it isn't data loss that's the problem, its the sheer mechanics of their speakers not being good enough. Airpods and pro's have the convenience factor built in, thats why they are great with an iphone. But lets not say its for sound quality!
That’s all ********.
You are making a lot of assumptions as if they were fact. But I’m sure you know more than apple engineers right?
All wrong. But hey this is the internet where anyone can say a lot of nonsense.
And yet, you offer not one shred of evidence that AirPod Pro's are capable of accurately reproducing lossless quality music. That's what I call nonsense.
You win 2022 kind sir or madam!
P.S. thank you for making me laugh. I almost snorted some coffee up my nose.
If people want these, even while they can’t hear the difference, Apple is right in selling those.
They will move more AirPods, there will be a shift to bigger iPhone storage as the music files get bigger, maybe even the iPhone 14 pro will be required for compatibility, … good for business.
They will move more AirPods, there will be a shift to bigger iPhone storage as the music files get bigger, maybe even the iPhone 14 pro will be required for compatibility, … good for business.
It’s funny but at the same time also a bit unfair to the Max. In wired mode it’s not completely identical to the original lossless because of the ADC but even with 24-bit 48 kHz lossless audio the difference is small enough that even the most picky audiophiles won’t be able to hear any difference. Hi-Res Lossless of 24-bit 192 kHz audio with a DAC will be downsampled to 24-bit 48 kHz so again in this case it won’t be a 1-to-1 of High-Res lossless but it should be about the same or better than regular lossless.
Additionally, the advantage of doing the ADC in the first place isn’t mentioned as much. The Max is able to do near lossless audio while still being able to use Noise cancellation and transparency, unlike the XM4 and Bose 700 in wired mode.
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I'm wondering about other features that may benefit from more bandwidth, like Spatial Audio, and whatever they'll be doing with AR/VR.
So it won't use Bluetooth then. I wonder if they will connect directly via WiFi or if Apple will have their own proprietary solution? Seems the previous article about Bluetooth being the bottleneck was a hit towards something like this.
I really wish the new Apple TV remote and AirPods 3 natively supported the U1 chip.
I really wish the new Apple TV remote and AirPods 3 natively supported the U1 chip.
It does not matter how innovative the headphones are, when connected to a mediocre sound source as the iPhone DAC it's a waste of resources and a bad experience. They need to bring back a new version of the iPod Classic exclusively for music enjoyment (playing) those who have tasted the nectar of high quality sounds knows what I mean.