Gradually, some of the many doubts left by Apple’s announcement about Apple Music’s improvements are dissipating. The company has confirmed that the HomePod and HomePod mini will be compatible with lossless audio. after a next update.
Apple has announced major improvements to its music streaming service, including the ability to listen to audio in a higher quality format, lossless for compression, in addition to adding the Dolby Atmos option. If this last feature will be present in all headphones and speakers of the brand, including some Beats models, the music “lossless” (lossless) left us much colder because at the beginning I appreciated that no speaker or earphone was not going to be able to reproduce. he. But Apple has confirmed that the HomePod and HomePod mini will receive an upcoming update that will make them compatible..
The situation with AirPods and AirPods Pro remains the same, according to the company, andl Bluetooth does not allow lossless audio due to the limitations of the wireless connection itself, which is not entirely true as there is the option to achieve lossless “CD” quality over Bluetooth, which does not get high resolution but improves the up-to-date compressions supported by the AAC codec.
If we are talking about AirPods Max, we are in a similar situation when it comes to Bluetooth. The thing changes a bit with the cable connection, but not too much due to the type of cable we currently have for these headphones. If we want to connect them to our iPhone, we will find three digital-to-analog conversions at three different points: one on the Lightning to Jack adapter for iPhone; one more on the Lightning jack cable for AirPods Max; the latest in the AirPods Max themselves. With so much conversion, the loss of quality is obvious, which is why Apple insists that it cannot be true lossless audio.
This issue would be fixed, if Apple wanted, with a Lightning to Lightning cable. This would only allow a single conversion to take place in the DAC of the AirPods Max themselves, but that’s something the company hasn’t confirmed, although we hoped. The AirPods Max have more than enough capacity to hear this type of sound, although it is never at high resolution, as the DAC they include only reaches 48KHz.
