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Originally Posted by SpyderMike
To my understanding, WIFI and Bluetooth are data stream transmission pipelines - they don't know what is going through them, nor do they affect the end result. They are just pipelines for accurate data transmission. What is critical to fidelity is the encoding to digital on the front end and the decoder chip/circuit in the receiving device that changes it back from Digital to Analog - the DAC. Then, of course, there are the amp and speakers...
There has been a move toward greater digital sampling for higher fidelity in digitizing and streaming - HD Tracks, Tidal, the PONO player, etc.
So basically, my collection of 57,000 flac songs sounds as good as if I were playing CDs through an expensive CD player. It is just more easy and more convenient to make playlists, find songs, play albums, etc..
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Im not an expert on this, but my understanding is blue tooth cannot suport a high enough bit rate to send loss less files, blue tooth audio is necessarily compromised from cd quality at least
I think Wifi can support very high quality audio but you need to be sure some mass market systems probably arnt built to do this.
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some mfgs have their own protocol for this sort of stuff. Dynaudio for example has an rf system that does better than cd quality streaming. These systems accept bluetooth as well but the quality will be reduced. I cant find a spec however:
Xeo 2 - Dynaudio Xeo 2 multi-band wireless loudspeaker
If you want a very high quality digital stereo with a low footprint, these are an interesting option. Around 1500$ though I think.