Powerful tiny Bluetooth amp

You don’t even need to pay hundreds of dollars worth of equipment.

A reasonably powerful, capable, and tiny high bandwidth DAC can be purchased for well under $100 (although the really good ones will be in the $150 range – you get what you pay for). Any decent pair of wired headphones is likely to sound better than Bluetooth headphones. You don’t even need to spend a lot of money on headphones – good pair of wired headphones can be bought for well under $100. Most Bluetooth (cans at least) can also be hardwired so you wouldn’t even need to replace existing headphones.

But that’s cool – if you’re in a situation where you don’t need great audio fidelity, or you just don’t really care in general then by all means go with Bluetooth. I use Bluetooth earbuds all the time when on the go. They are fine for their purpose.

It doesn’t change the simple fact that existing Bluetooth codecs will have inferior audio quality over wired solutions because they simply cannot overcome the limitations of bandwidth and physics.

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