Aptx is actually pretty good, certainly for ear pods. It's a time-domain codec which is great for acoustical instruments (the frequency-domain codecs can fail t

Aptx is actually pretty good, certainly for ear pods. It's a time-domain codec which is great for acoustical instruments (the frequency-domain codecs can fail there, AAC too). The signal-to-noise ratio is lower than CD quality but still good enough so that noise is not audible: http://soundexpert.org/articles/-/blogs/audio-quality-of-bluetooth-aptx http://soundexpert.org/articles/-/blogs/audio-quality-of-blu...