Cars tend to have older versions of the bluetooth spec, so that might explain it (though it could easily be down to expectation bias on your part - never mind the fact that cars are incredibly noisy environments to begin with), you really shouldn’t be able to tell the difference with current gear. I just got an 80W Samsung soundbar which sounds really great.
We are talking about different things.
no, we’re not.
Lol, Freeformat is a devtool. I don’t know of any hardware players that can handle it.
Thanks mum!!!
I live in a small town with a great bike track.
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You’ve got quite the adversarial discussion style.
I agree with you completely. I doubt you would notice much difference in sound quality between a wired source and a BT source on a Samsung soundbar.
I’m not sure that was quite the original proposition though, was it?
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Not so great it has its own bangin system, apparently.
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Assuming I could successfully lobby council to install a loud sound system along the 14km of postcard pastoral land I ride my bike through every day, I still think getting them to blast darkwave electronica out of it would be a stretch.
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You never know until you try.
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– Insert council lobbying montage –
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“Many of us pass them on a daily basis, and think nothing of it. ” said the high level source that we bumped into in the pub “But we’ve managed to infiltrate the group, and have discovered that for the last few months they’ve been secretly tunnelling under the grounds of the hall, and will soon emerge within the council chamber itself.
“It’s why they need to drink so much of that Monster energy drink, so they can do the work,” our source explained, and why they wear such heavy boots. Their leader is mad for health and safety so insists on protective footwear.”```
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The general principle holds, getting better speakers will make it sound better, regardless of the transmission source or mechanism, and I doubt very much whether anyone, under independently controlled conditions, would be able to tell the difference. I’ve never hooked up bluetooth to my studio monitors, but if I did and used a relatively newish receiver, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference there either. A couple-thousand dollar setup isn’t going to miraculously highlight hidden audio glitches that simply don’t exist in a manner that’s perceptible to the human ear/brain, that’s not how digital audio works, it’s not how auditory perception works (even with compression added to the mix, given the actual quality of compression we’re talking about).
Of course you haven’t, that would be insane.
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Making an earbud is a terrible idea. I have to wear earplugs. In my experience, the foam and rubber ones are painfully uncomfortable, and don’t have any noticeable attenuation; the moldable ones are moderately uncomfortable, and give 7-8 db of attenuation while rated for 26 db of attenuation. I was able to improve things by embedding earbuds in moldable ear plugs for pink noise to counter other noises and hopefully retrain my ears.
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Good luck. FSM knows you need the hearing protection. I’d suggest the silicone putty earplugs that can get a very good seal all the way down the ear canal, but I have the feeling I’ve read you say that doesn’t work well for you either.
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You mean, like an iPhone?
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Hit or miss for me. Fine with ditching the floppy, parallel, and modem, but I have expensive A/V equipment that needed Firewire, and I have to have an optical drive, period.
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Did you reply to the wrong thing there? I presume you meant to reply to the bit where I mentioned using mp3 on the receiver end? I don’t know what freeformat is, is it a specific profile? I’m talking about the A2DP profile, which supports any audio codec in theory, and many devices do support mp3 (wasn’t sure before, which I said, but on checking it’s pretty widespread now, certainly on the transmission end, not sure how widespread it is on the receiver end).
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As opposed to…?
Canonical: certifying hardware without Ubuntu drivers as Ubuntu compatible.
Just about everyone: advertising accessibility features which the machine or the system doesn’t have, making screens too bright too look at, pushing touchscreens.
There are other reasons to replace a phone after a few years. But I expect to still by using my 5 year old Klipsch earphones 5 or 10 years from now. Barring a destructive accident, there’s nothing to wear out except the silicone in-ear pieces, and I ordered several replacements from Klipsch a long time ago, just in case they would no longer be in stock when I needed replacements (pretty cheap, so worth the investment).
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