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by erdewit 1625 days ago
Aptx is actually pretty good, certainly for ear pods. It's a time-domain codec which is great for acoustical instruments (the frequency-domain codecs can fail there, AAC too).

The signal-to-noise ratio is lower than CD quality but still good enough so that noise is not audible:

http://soundexpert.org/articles/-/blogs/audio-quality-of-blu...