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how many times has this happened to you you're in the middle of a game a

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conference call or you're jamming out to some embarrassing music when you have to

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get up and go answer the phone forgetting that you're using a wired

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pair of headphones the cord drags your laptop to the ground and making matters

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worse you lose your balance trying to catch it and now you've got both a

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broken computer and no idea when that pizza you ordered is coming so the

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advantages of having a wireless audio solution from someone like our sponsor

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for today's video antlion are pretty obvious but there's plenty

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more to choosing the correct one other than finding something without wires and

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calling it a day and if you're looking for a bluetooth device much has been

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made of choosing the correct codec

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but how much does that matter well you can learn more about codecs up here but

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simply put a codec is the scheme that your devices will use to encode and

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decode a digital signal to produce actual sound so if you're looking for a

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bluetooth speaker or headset it almost certainly supports a codec called sbc

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this codec is kind of the universal lowest common denominator that allows a

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huge range of playback devices and speakers to work with each other and it

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actually delivers decent enough results it supports up to 328 kbit per second

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bit rates which is about what you'd get with a spotify premium subscription and

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many people would actually be hard-pressed to tell the difference

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between sbc and fancier codex

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however it's important to remember that this doesn't necessarily mean that your

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tracks that you're paying your 10 bucks a month for will sound exactly like

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you'd expect on an sbc speaker or headphones the vast majority of the

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audio that you listen to over the internet is compressed and spc

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re-compresses that audio with its own algorithm to preserve battery life at

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the expense of sound quality so some people will be able to tell the

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difference especially with higher end gear

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so sbc isn't a terrible codec but there

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are better ones other codecs such as aptx and aac support higher bandwidth

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and therefore higher quality audio and the very premium optics hd and ldac even

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boast that they support 24-bit audio streams

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with that said audio that high-res has

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long been the subject of controversy with many enthusiasts claiming that

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virtually no one can tell the difference between 24-bit audio and the standard

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16-bit stream that you'd hear on something like a cd

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but could there be more to codex than just sound quality

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yes a more important difference that better codec can make is in the latency

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that is the delay caused by the time it takes for your devices to receive and

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process a signal have you ever noticed an unacceptably long audio delay when

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watching a video or playing a game using bluetooth where the audio simply doesn't

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sync up with what's happening on screen well if that's the case you might want

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to look into devices that support the optics ll codec with ll standing for low

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latency this codec can cut down on that pesky audio delay several times over so

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give it a shot if you game or watch lots of movies over bluetooth

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just remember that whichever codec you're interested in has to be supported

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by both your source device and the speaker or headphones so some research

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is required before buying especially because it's difficult to check what

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codec you're currently using in Windows

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unfortunately it might be difficult to find this information on some gadgets

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such as laptops a little patience though will be worth it if you're tired of

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everything you watch looking like a badly dubbed kung fu movie

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