The blacksmith’s mare walks barefoot. This saying could be applied to the California company Apple, which it introduced yesterday lossless music streaming within Apple Music. Although one would expect the company’s products with a delicious apple in the emblem to be among the first to support all the news, the opposite is true. You will definitely not enjoy sound in lossless quality and surround sound on all products, even those for which it is directly offered.
Let’s put aside the fact that you will need an external converter for maximum quality. You can listen to lossless audio through iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple TV, but not with headphones AirPods, AirPods Pro or AirPods Max. In the case of sticks and plugs, the impossibility of sending lossless sound via Bluetooth is excusable, but with the premium AirPods Max, which can also be connected via cable and reducer to the iPhone, this is no longer very understandable.
If you connect the AirPods Max to an iPhone, iPad or Mac via a Lightning cable and a reduction to a 3.5 mm jack, the headphones will convert the digital track to analog and then back to digital form, with a loss. It’s hard to say that with AirPods Max you can enjoy music in lossless quality.
The new lossless music streaming is not even supported by the smart HomePod and HomePod mini speakers, which is definitely a shame, and it especially freezes those customers who have bought more speakers from Apple in their home to create a stereo effect. Spatial Audio, or surround sound within Dolby Atmos, is available for all Apple headphones and speakers, so at least something loyal customers will see. If you want to enjoy lossless music quality through Apple Music, all you have to do is buy headphones with ALAC codec support and an external converter.
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