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Do Wireless Headphones Need 24-Bit/192kHz Lossless Audio? Major Brands Disagree
['Ian White', 'Robert Silva', 'Ryan Waniata', 'Brian Mitchell']
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Yet Bowers & Wilkins and Mark Levinson have distinctly different views about how aggressively the industry should pursue 24-bit/192kHz lossless wireless playback.
Apparently, even inside Samsung’s rather enormous audio family, there is no consensus about what premium wireless headphones need next.
Apple Music offers Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless playback, but Apple explicitly states that Bluetooth connections are not lossless.
Even its own wireless headphones rely on AAC over conventional Bluetooth; lossless playback on compatible AirPods Max models requires a USB-C cable.
Building headphones capable of 24-bit/192kHz lossless playback is only part of the job.