This week you could get excited again; after all, Apple has announced new music features but explicitly excludes buyers of the AirPods. Yes, there is such a thing!
In June, Apple Music leaps a league with services like Tidal and Co. For then, even Apple will finally Hire music streaming to deploy, and with the new format, ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) go to the game to hi-fi To “kill” enthusiasts. However, they are not allowed to own and use AirPods. Even the expensive AirPods Max is of no use with a price of $549.00
Apple Lossless without AirPods: No? But! No matter.
If you want to hear Apple Lossless, you need good, old, and not very cheap high-end headphones or speakers – with cables, of course. Because digital is better, with HiRes, analog is still king in the end. For this reason, the iPhone also needs a clever digital-to-analog converter (DAC), for example, as this is the only way to work with the lossless audio files from Apple Music.
Should you get upset because Apple is excluding all AirPods owners in this context? Don’t think there are two good reasons against whining.
It is just not technically feasible. Even if the wireless connection via Bluetooth were not the problem, Apple’s headphones would probably still fail because of the frequency range that is possible – it just doesn’t get through enough.
Expensive, but not useful for Apple Lossless – the AirPods Max:
And even if this technical reason were eliminated, there is, in my opinion, a much more critical factor: the actual hearing ability of the user. Only fans of the sinister hi-fi voodoo cult believe that they can hear a massive difference. Often it is based on a placebo effect, and after all, you have to hear something when you have “invested” several thousand euros for headphones and audio interface, right? Sure, would you like another globule? Who does not know them, the tiny magic pearls made of sugar and “magical” water? Always throw it in and firmly believe in it.
Teenagers are most likely to hear any differences, but rarely can they afford the expensive and required hi-fi equipment. On the other hand, the older people are financially able to do so; only the hearth is usually long gone. Unfortunately, the hearing no longer regenerates.
Apple said that when AirPods Max are connected to devices that play lossless audio from Apple Music via a cable, users will listen to lossless audio, but only an essential quality. A few years ago, reports began to circulate on the network that none of Apple’s wireless headphones will provide the user with sound without loss of quality.
It was impossible to implement Hi-Res support since the Lightning ↔ 3.5 mm cable is combined with an analog-to-digital converter, affecting sound quality. This lands us on the fact that expensive headphones don’t make much sense, even with Apple Lossless. So no need to be angry. The AirPods need neither Apple Lossless nor “old bags” like me.
