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"Audiophile wireless" is an oxymoron.
Yeah, I'm reaching this conclusion. However there is (for me) a pay off between sound quality and convenience, and wireless is pretty convenient.
I am idly considering a wired headphone rig as well.
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wireless is pretty convenient
You'd have thought it would be a no-brainer to include a microSD card slot in wireless headphones so you could take the radio out of the loop, but I can't find anything but crappy cheap ones with that facility.
Taken to silly audiophile extremes, a 512GB card would hold over 24 hours of 24 bit stereo 96kHz uncompressed PCM, which should be enough to be getting along with, or almost a week's worth of 16bit/44.1kHz with lsls cmprsn.
gbj_tester
Between lossy compression and dropped packets due to RFI, Bluetooth is going to sound shit however clean the bitstream is before it enters the BT domain. Wireless data streams can be either accurate or timely, and for obvious reasons media streams prioritise timely.
"Audiophile wireless" is an oxymoron.