I always thought that they would've already been improving on a lot of this with each new version of bluetooth. Aren't we on Bluetooth 5.0 now?

@@NicoleMay316 Bluetooth is one of the worst standards that we still rely on to be honest. Techquickie has a good video about this, an old rant

It sounds too good to be true

no lossless? crap.

@@cheater00 Unfortunately it's just not possible and will never be.

Not yet ;)

@@mrn234 don't jinx it please 😭😭

They sort of already have with minute iterations every year from 4,4.1/2, 5, 5.1/2/3/4. Companies can't even keep up with making chips for the upgrades

@@ubacow7109 another case of open projects moving too fast for their own good 😔. Android is another example of this. Google should slow down to 1.5 or even 2 years per update IMO.

@@MarnixUwU And the manufacturers should update their shit longer overall. Even after 2 years my Redmi Note 9 Pro still works great but i wont get android 13

Well it is great demonstration for those who are using wired headphones

Lol

@@MrYoOoDoO1999 or wireless, lag on wireless has been gone for a while now with bluetooth 5.1 and up

@@Sideways_Singh I don't know about lag in general, but UKposts fights lag by delaying the audio, so it ends up matching with the video.

Lol 🤣

Yeah. As soon as I get on a call while using my Bose headphones the Audio quality goes to shit lol. It's like the bandwidth just isn't enough so it has to drop the quality.

I was waiting for them to mention this. It's not even stereo audio.

The sad part is that proprietary 2.4GHz support this just fine. Looks like the protocol itself is the issue.

It always drives me nuts when the system automatically switchs the Bluetooth audio from Stereo to "Hands-free AG Audio".

@@triadwarfare indeed it is. I've read an article on that topic some time ago. Basically, problem is that there is only one defined standard codec for 2 way audio and it only supports mono with low bitrate. Technically, there's another codec that can do that, but it's supported in very small number of headphones and I'm not even sure it's supported in any major os' Bluetooth stack. And yes, in order for codec to work it must be supported by both headphones and Bluetooth stack in your source device's OS/firmware

Silent raves getting an upgrade

Placing small speakers all around the house so you get nice background audio everywhere, Sonos style.

Also a bit concerned about random people screaming slurs directly into my ear if the security aspect doesn't work out xD But seriously, this could be awesome

Somehow I feel it's going to be the exact opposite. I predict it's going to be one of those features that were hyped back in the days, but nobody really implemented them in the end. See Techmoan for examples...

yep finally going to have 3 speakers in my car now (the two that are powered from the car stereo and the tv soundbar thats in the boot :P )

There is no quality when it comes to Bluetooth

@@user-wr5we2xg6h haven't used LDAC have yah? its pretty great honestly having 990kbs is a huge improvement, also paired with stuff like DSEE HX. it's like wired is 10/10 but this is like 9 outta ten and the benefit of wire freedom is great, being able to walking around a big city and control everything via the headset and have a ton more freedom from wires is great. also plenty of phones don't have very good Dacs and dont put out much power either, that get circumvented when your headset is self powered, so not needing to pay extra for an external device is nice

@@seeyouspacecowboy14 the range ain't great though and if you are surrounded by 2.4Ghz signals it cuts off all the time

@@MLTAKOS I didn't really have too much of a problem while visiting Tokyo or New York City It sounded pretty much great walking all day The only time I really had slightly an issue was sometimes waiting for a few minutes on the platform of the train in Tokyo, but on the train there really wasn't an issue

@@seeyouspacecowboy14 yeah never used ldac since i only use Bluetooth earphones for calls and anc, i listen to music on my $1500 focal clear mg and I don't reall understand why people keep saying ldac is good. The only reson people use Bluetooth for music listening is because they're poor. End of story

sound gets really horrible when devices enter "heatset mode". they sound like those early vinyl records lol

If you have a somewhat new Android and headphones that support aptx adaptive, latency isn't a problem.

My bose headset has never had latency problems

U need to go full on android and ldac supported devices, iphone is very limited on many things, including the bluetooth features...

Bluetooth aptX sounds great, even tested on reference monitors

I'm assuming they meant iPhone, since the iPod didn't have BT audio

I was scrolling to see if anyone else noticed this lol

The Sony Phone has a headphone jack, yet it still has its own high bandwidth codec, and at launch shipped with headphones which support both of those options.

Remember that development cost of these things are not zero. So you'd bet that Sony has some internal cashflows from the part of the company that makes the headphones to the part of the company that develops the codec.

Sony developed thier own standard but may also include others for maximum compatibility and marketing. I just wish they invested more in making the drivers more resistant to moisture (sweaty ears lead to a ear splitting screech) and hinges that did not break.

My right earbud seems to discharge as fast as the left one though :x

​@@shrek967 Perhaps left and right bud alternate as master/slave to make the power draw even? I have the buds2 pro which promises to support lc3 in the future, and samsung+microsoft are now co-developing on a windows implementation of LE audio! This will be interesting ....

hell yea

How is this better than putting the phone on speaker? Energy consumption aside

@GH0STST4RSCR34M In relation to usage case of original commenter. Why on earth would you line-in a headphone socket from a phone to a pc for music and calls? Bluetooth is the obvious way to do this ? Speaker phone would also make sense, no?

@GH0STST4RSCR34M Notice I also said speaker 🔊 - using the phone's own speaker, thoughts?

@GH0STST4RSCR34M I was in a hurry while writing, so let me explain my situation. I have a decent headphones connected to a dac/amp with good EQ running on my PC. So I would prefer their sound over anything else. And I line-in my phone when playing games, so I can listen to the game and the phone simultaneously by connecting the phone as a line-in source. You can argue that this be done on the background while playing or by using another monitor. But I I don't have space for another monitor and I prefer to have my separate controls. Beucase some games I play, adjust the resolution of the screen whenever I shift to another window for some reason, and it takes time when I just want to pause a video lets say. Regarding using the phone on speakers, when I play a game I wouldn't be able to hear the phone, so this is not an option to my situation. If I was using an open-back headphone this could be an option but I would sacrifice sound fidelity this way.

It would have been even better if the explanation was given by one of their savy guys instead of this illiterate, I don't know why they keep featuring him.

I tried to replay that part couple times to "fix" the desync, until I realized it was intentional.

Yeeeaahhhhh... They got me too.. 😂

Sync isn't quality loss though...

@@Avendesora you beat me to saying that

"and this video is most likely to be viewed on UKposts." on a phone anyway

@@ventilate4267 People download videos to watch them on PC? Or stream from something like VLC? I download a lot, but I watch them on UKposts most of the time. Or you mean alternate sites/interfaces that pull the UKposts stream?

@@deraile UKposts has Bluetooth latency compensation on the mobile app, I'm saying that windows doesn't have this natively

@@ventilate4267 Oh I'm dumb lol, you right! I guess the part you chose to quote confused me. I got an AptX LL antenna with compatible headphones for my PC now, and there's a tiny delay without it even still on BT 5.0.

This part of the video seems to have the audio intentionally out of sync with the video so the effect is there even if youtube corrected for it any bluetooth delays.

the battery of ur bluetooth headphone will probably degrade enough in one year that you will need a new one anyway

@@marlon.8051 It's already three years old (ironically I bought it right before the start of the pandemic to have some good ANC on my work commute). Battery life is fine so far (largely due to its pampered existence), but annoyingly the *battery indicator* has gone wonky--it'll charge all day then report "battery low" until I power cycle it two times, and it'll finally self-register as being at full. Anker Q20 if you're looking for a less-than-enthusiastic recommendation.

@@marlon.8051 I wouldn't bet on it but it definitely could lol. I still use my sony xm4 and use them literally 12+ hours every single day since I've had them ( 2 or three years now) and their battery performance hasn't degraded at all even though I have literally charged them over 1000 times since getting them. I will however say that the ANC doesn't work on them anymore though as one mic started to have feedback issues so whenever I turn them on I have to quickly turn off ANC as there is a high pitch squealing noise from the right ear cup that is super loud haha but hey as long as they keep on working just fine for me then I'm going to keep them

@@marlon.8051 idk, my AirPods Pro are a year old and battery life is almost like new. My left bud had to be swapped recently and when my right one dies the left one has around 5% battery left, that’s not that bad for a whole year I think it will get much worse next year though

Macs already have Bluetooth LE, so I think they might add support for LE Audio Or they might just come up with their own standard bruh

Has Bluetooth been single channel only this entire time? That simply can't be.

@@flameshana9 Not single channel. The signal usually goes from the phone to the left ear bud, then the left earbud repeats the signal to the right earbud. Now each bud will just get their own signal direct from the source device.

I mean in finland we already have wifi 4g phones that are higher quality

VoLTE (4G calling) and VoWiFi (WiFi calling) exist for a reason. There is even VoNR (5G calling). Your network provider and your phone need to support them, though.

You already have a (arguably shrinking) choice of Amdroid phones, mostly mid-range that still pack a *3.5mm HP Jack!!* One of my prerequisites when I had to upgrade my phone last year was that it SHOULD have a 3.5 mm HP jack (paired with the fastest SoC I could get, I was also keen on trying Dimensity), so I ended up upgrading from my (then) 3.5yr old Z2 Plus (another compact/1-hand dream phone) to the X7 Max! Now I'm planning to buy some good pair of cans/iems in a year or two (HD58X, IE300, etc)

vamopalecuela

Maybe you should have tried to make it float instead. Or sync...

Aptx adaptive already does the same thing. So you only have to get a speaker that supports it.

Aptx LL solves most of the latency.

@@absolutium that is outdated. Aptx adaptive is the newer version that combines aptx hd and aptx LL.

Your device would need a Bluetooth 5.2 controller. Most likely what you have now won't work.

Watch it again, they say ipod not IPhones.

@@dhanushm6557 yeah, that’s exactly what’s wrong. That’s what my boy Ben is saying as well. They said iPod, but they meant iPhone

Wow, I scrolled way too long to find someone who noticed this. I didn't think people watching their videos would just not notice something like that

@@zakaryan2004 Same I just scrolled down to make sure i wasn't crazy 😆

Your phone needs to support Bluetooth 5.2, your android os must be 13 or higher, and your headphones/buds must specifically support Bluetooth LE audio. The ones that come to mind right now are the sony linkbuds S, And the Samsung galaxy buds 2 pro. Both of them will support LE audio with a future firmware update.

Even Sony's high bandwidth (900kbps) codec has to support dynamically switching to lower bandwidths (600 and 300kbps) to avoid cutting out when there's inference (and even then, Bluetooth can cut out completely at times). Bluetooth offers convenience, but there will always be tradeoffs when you're sharing the 2.4 GHz radio spectrum with everything else. That's where it's useful to have the option of a wire (which thankfully Sony also still supports).

As for software updates, they're needed on both ends - Phone and Headphones, so you'd best hope both get an update, or it doesn't help. My headphones don't seem to support this latest codec, so I'll have to stick with LDAC or SBC (or the wire) for now.

If you are asking if it is backwards compatible, it should. But I think that will slowly fade out and all audio is done with LE Audio.

This will most likely mean buying new devices that support this technology. So the phone and the Bluetooth headphones will need to have Bluetooth LE Audio to take advantage of this.

it's part of a new revision I think (I might be wrong). So rest assured that you'd probably need to upgrade to a new phone (unless it's a recent one with a flagship-ish SoC) & buy a new pair of cans/iems as well! I personally couldn't care less as I have a 3.5 mm HP jack in my phone!

Introduced in Bluetooth 5.2, which means both the source device and headphones must also use Bluetooth 5.2

@@thegamerfromjuipiter7545 but we already have BT5.3, right?