[nutcasey]

Hello!

First time post here and I was just wondering if anyone knows of a way to achieve truly lossless audio using an iPhone? I have a great set of wired Shure headphones and would love to get an adaptor that could free me from the wires but I can't seem to find anything that would give me sound parity.

Thanks

 

[onevstheworld]

You can't find anything because lossless wireless doesn't (yet) exist. AptX is probably the closest you can get on Bluetooth, but that's still a compression algorithm.

 

[Malfunkt]

Yes, FLAC and ALAC are lossless. Nplayer for iOS is excellent and can play these formats and many others (you could even play WAV if you wanted). But you will need to stick to wired.

I recommend lossy for wireless applications. Especially if used outdoors or during activity where the differences become even more negligible.

 

[nutcasey]

What is the best adaptor for a wired solution if lossless can't be achieved wirelessly?

 

[nutcasey]

Hello again! I was wondering if this is still the case? Is there any sign of a lossless wireless solution within the apple ecosystem?

Thanks

 

[FlowLikeWater]

Hello again! I was wondering if this is still the case? Is there any sign of a lossless wireless solution within the apple ecosystem?

Thanks

still no lossless audio codec for bluetooth, closest is LDAC

 

[HipHopScribe]

still no lossless audio codec for bluetooth, closest is LDAC

And Apple doesn't support LDAC, the best they have is AAC

 

[hopelesswanderor]

The thing is you do not really need lossless audio when you are going wireless. The reason is simple, you use wireless while commuting or out and about where you are far from noticing the difference in lossless and compressed audio. For high quality lossless listening stick to wired and fight something satisfactory for wireless audio.

 

[HipHopScribe]

The thing is you do not really need lossless audio when you are going wireless. The reason is simple, you use wireless while commuting or out and about where you are far from noticing the difference in lossless and compressed audio. For high quality lossless listening stick to wired and fight something satisfactory for wireless audio.

I agree, even AAC should be pretty close to transparent with most music and that's generally good enough for all but critical listening

 

[nutcasey]

Hello! Just to bump this again. Does anyone know if anything has changed in the last iOS/iPhone releases that might have changed this?

Thanks

 

[megabigeye]

Nope.

 

[nutcasey]

That's a shame. I was hoping for some type of movement on this by now. Thanks anyway.