A Conundrum of Bluetooth Codecs
I thought Bluetooth codecs could be summed up in just a few sentences, and went something like "SBC bad, AAC not much better, Aptx good, Sony LDAC best".
The more I get into it the more confusing and less clear cut it gets. To back up a bit, I will soon have a AKG N70NC bluetooth, noise cancelling headphone as part of a Samsung phone promotion, a model that has received a lot of flack for only having SBC and AAC codecs. If i interpret everything right, AAC would be fine if the music files had a data stream of less than about 300kb/second, but my uncompressed Flac music library usually plays at double this or more, which I assume means the tablet will start compressing everything to send over the Bluetooth link. I can of course use the wired connection, and probably will most of the time, but the convenience of just using the headphones wirelessly is pretty appealing, especially if there's a cat wanting to sit on my lap at the same time.
To confuse things more, I've enabled developer options in the Samsung tablet which allow some customizing of the installed codecs, including data rates, but I can't play with them till I get the headphones and the tablet pairs up.
So, can I ask, is AAC really only for low data rate applications, like Spotify, YouTube etc, and, if I use it to stream regular Redbook CD music files, will it degrade them and by roughly how much?
Thanks in advance,
Without music, powerboat racing, photography and a whole stack of other stuff that floats my boat, life is just a non stop procession of deadlines and bills.