[spdtdl]

Cash waiting for:

Portable (think xDSD size)
4.4mm balanced Pentaconn
Bass Boost
USB C
MQA (decode & render)
PCM768kHz & DSD512
Bluetooth 5

Take my money!

 

[Mad Max]

lol

 

[sonance]

How much would you pay? I like the list of features - I would add mfi to the list for wider compatibility. No mention of sound quality or driving power, battery life.
I would expect that it would take some serious engineering (and/or cost) to achieve good sq with all that in a small package. Sony might be the most likely to make something like that.

 

[Pierre111]

I can make you one for about 200 000 $ , do we have a deal?

 

[subtec]

Bluetooth 5

BT 5 has no use for audio streaming due to the improvements therein only being applicable to Bluetooth Low Energy mode, which currently lacks audio profiles.

On that note, @Pierre111 have you looked into streaming audio over BLE at all? There was some news recently of a company demoing it.

 

[spdtdl]

I have AirPods 1 and 2 and in side by side tests I get a substantial increase in distance away from the source with AirPods 2.

I included bt5 in the wish list not for superior sound quality.

 

[subtec]

I have AirPods 1 and 2 and in side by side tests I get a substantial increase in distance away from the source with AirPods 2.

I included bt5 in the wish list not for superior sound quality.

The Airpods use Apple's W1/H1 chip, which incorporates some proprietary stuff you don't get with regular Bluetooth 5. The simple fact is that BT5 only has improvements to range or data rate for Bluetooth Low Energy, and there are no hi-fi stereo audio profiles for BLE as part of the standard.