Sonic Defender
Headphoneus Supremus
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.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.