Does Bluetooth 5.0 support lossless audio?
Does Bluetooth 5.0 support lossless audio?

Does Bluetooth 5.0 support lossless audio?

Yes.

Bluetooth 5.0 does not greatly improve the sound quality of audio transmission. The Bluetooth A2DP protocol commonly used in listening to songs belongs to the traditional Bluetooth, so although the Bluetooth technology has advanced to 5.0 in the consumer market, the Bluetooth headset still uses the A2DP1.2 set when the Bluetooth 2.1 was used to transmit audio.

In this regard, the upgrade of the Bluetooth version will not affect the sound quality. There will be no qualitative difference in sound quality when listening to music with Bluetooth 5.0 and listening to music with Bluetooth 2.1.

To put it simply, for Bluetooth to have good sound quality, it is not necessary to pursue high-level Bluetooth technology such as Bluetooth 5.0, but to set the transmission mode of Bluetooth audio to high-quality encodings such as LDAC and LHDC.

At present, the more popular high-quality Bluetooth audio compression algorithms include aptX/aptX-HD, LDAC, LHDC, etc. Among them, aptX is the technology promoted by CSR. After CSR was acquired by Qualcomm, it became the proprietary technology of Qualcomm chips; while LDAC is from Sony, with very high quality, claiming to achieve Hi-Res-level sound quality. At present, LDAC has become Android 8.0. The standard configuration of LHDC is from Huawei, the specifications are similar to LDAC, and it is also a lossless Bluetooth audio encoding.

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