High quality sound with lossless audio

Hear your music in stunning lossless quality. Many Bluetooth techniques for compressing and decompressing audio can destruct parts of the data and reduce the quality of the output. Snapdragon Sound with aptX Lossless technology retains all of the original content, bit for bit, resulting in music identical to the original recording. It’s designed to scale to up to deliver 16-bit 44.1kHz Lossless CD-quality when users are listening to lossless streaming source content, like Amazon HD, and it can scale back the bit-rate in busy RF environments to ensure no drop-outs or audio glitches.

Hear the difference.

At first listen, music transmitted over a standard Bluetooth audio link might sound fine. But to transmit the music over the Bluetooth "pipe" the file must be compressed and decompressed, and this results in a loss of fidelity. Compare this first track with the second to hear the music as the artist intended, featuring Snapdragon Sound with aptX Lossless audio technology.

 

We isolated the parts of the audio that get discarded with standard, lossy codecs like SBC. What you're listening to is the part of the music that is lost with standard Bluetooth.

See the difference

Original Audio

Lossy Audio

 

Some technologies used are lossy and remove bits of audio data, reducing the quality of sound

Lossless audio

Lossless audio techniques like aptX Lossless technology retain the fidelity of the sound and are mathematically bit-for-bit exact.

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