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Even as someone who uses bluetooth headphones 100% of the time, I'm still pretty unhappy with this as they don't even support the industry standard for high quality bluetooth audio: apt-x (or if they did, I must've missed it somehow).



Most support AAC though, which is in the Bluetooth standard somewhere. At least when connected to the iPhone that sounds as good as apt-X, even on really good headphones.

I've run into this issue a few times with headphones that do: - apt-X only - apt-X + AAC - AAC only - neither

and as long as it supports AAC it sounds good with Apple devices. Sadly, manufacturers don't really put it on the label so it's hard to know.


Has anyone done a real test between iOS and Android on BT headset quality as it relates to apt-x? Seems that the only issue might be latency, though newer BT headsets I found have pretty decent response times.




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