[Sonic Defender]

Read up on the implementation of aptX / aptX HD. When you understand it, you'll recoil in horror. It's shocking that such a low fidelity codec is mostly transparent to the ear. It's a trivial bit discardation adaptive PCM codec designed for simple hardware implementation. It's not comparable to the fidelity of a "real" psychoacoustic codec like MP3 or AAC. I'm not sure if LDAC falls into the same category as aptX. Overall the success of these pseudo-Hi-Fi codecs is just marketing. MP3 and AAC are the only scientifically sound ones.

Interesting, I'll read up when I have some time. Glad that AAC is technically sound (which I had read about a while back) and also great sounding. I find LDAC sounds fine and I have some hope that it is also scientifically/psychoacoustically informed.

 

[Monstieur]

Interesting, I'll read up when I have some time. Glad that AAC is technically sound (which I had read about a while back) and also great sounding. I find LDAC sounds fine and I have some hope that it is also scientifically/psychoacoustically informed.

Here are someone else's measurements and listening tests on Bluetooth codecs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/ci7gqt/bluetooth_codec_measurements_and_impressions/

 

[Polar1]

Does anybody know if Momentum 3 which has Bluetooth 5 will work with a device that has BT 3? Thank you.

 

[matteventu]

Does anybody know if Momentum 3 which has Bluetooth 5 will work with a device that has BT 3? Thank you.

Yes, they will

 

[Mark Up]

Anyone hearing anything about a Momentum 4 or Momentum TWS 3? It's been long enough since their release for that to be under consideration or development.

 

[amrbadrawy]

I am intending to get the Momentum 3 and use it in wired 3.5 mode exclusively with FiiO K3 to listen to Hi-Res Flac 24bit-48/96 and DSD 64/128. How good are these when powered like that. I think about bluetooth as an add-on feature and not the main feature, it would be nice to use it occasionally wirelessly with ANC On, but that's not how I mainly intend to use it. What do you think guys?