Wiz33
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What is the point of LDAC?
At the root, it's probably so they don't have to pay licensing fees for AptX.
On paper, Aptx have a data rate of 576 kbps vs LDAC's 990 kbps. That's why Qualcomm only claims close to lossless 24/48 while Sony claims close to lossless on 24/96 playback. They are all temporary workaround. BT 5.0 is suppose to allocate much more bandwidth for audio (they claim 8 times of the current bandwidth overall but didn't say how much is available for the audio layer) but even 8 times of the current 328kbps should be enough for 24/96 lossless once that becomes available but then again we'll have to buy all new hardware.