Comment by Sohcahtoa82

> - aptX can do 44/16 in other devices, Sony has LDAC at 24/96 too

FWIW, 44/16 can still sound like garbage if compressed using lossy compression with a low bitrate.

But aptX is over 300 kbps. That's plenty of bandwidth to sound excellent, and I think anybody who says it doesn't sound good is lying to themselves.