What is the difference (in terms of music format) between a wireless headphone vs. a wired one? The information that they receive is the same?
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Well it’s not the same.
A wired connection can transfer data more efficiently and quickly than a wireless one.
To make up for this, a wireless headphone has to have that data compressed before receiving it.
That compression degrades the quality of the music data, leading to “worse” sounding music.
This is of course a bit subjective as most people don’t use the highest quality files to begin with and probably would never notice the difference.
There are different compression methods formats.
The most popular being
* SBC (Most basic and worst of them)
* AAC
* Aptx
* Aptx HD
* LDAC (proprietary sony format and considered the best)
For Android users, all android phones running 8.0 or higher can output LDAC but you do need a receiver or headphones which are compatible with the format
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