The plot around support Apple Music HiFi on audio products from the workshop Applu has another interesting sequel. After the Californian giant announced the service earlier this week, saying that lossless mode on AirPods neither HomePody nedodražiš has now published a document in which everything is different again - i.e. minialmost at HomePods.
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A new supporting document discovered by the portal MacRumors confirms that he has Apple planned in some future operating system updates for HomeAdd pods for Apple They need HiFi support, specifically for Lossless mode. AudioSo, fans hungry for Hi-Res Lossless will still have to resort to external devices in the form of converters and the like. How exactly will they get Apple na HomeAlthough the Lossless mode does not reveal the document, according to foreign experts, it should be possible to do so through AirPlay 2. This was also confirmed by leaker Jon Prosser with the exception of AirPlay 2 could Apple to create a completely new software solution intended only for their products, which would allow them to play in lossless mode.
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And what? AirPods?
If, while reading the previous lines, you had hope that the Lossless mode u Apple Music you will also benefit from some future firmware updates AIrPods, we have to disappoint you. You can't get this mode in your headphones wirelessly, or even with a cable. Lightning - 3,5mm jack, which can be used to connect AirPods Max with the device source, this will not be an ideal solution. According to the words AppAlthough the quality of the sound played through AirPods Max with a cable connection, Lossless mode will come very close, but it will still not be completely lossless. How significant these losses will be, however, Apple again he did not reveal in the document.
I think that the problem is that of everything apple the headphones/speakers have a chip in them that decodes the AAC codec in hardware and thus economically. Proyou are the whole song in aac sa poste do sluchatok and they are already playing it separately. This saves the battery, since the whole song does not have to be continuously streamed into the soundchatok/replay In order to keep the chip cheap, it is built only on aac. Otherwise, it won't recognize the new hi-fi codec. He would have to decrypt it with software, which he might not be able to handle or it would reduce the battery life. That would pri homehowever, it is not a problem because it is powered from the mains. Otherwise, my opinion is that the chip cannot be controlled by software and the only way is airplay where it is streamed by another device that has the power to do so.
For BT headphones, this is currently irrelevant, the current available BT codecs simply do not allow the transmission of lossless formats. BT currently flows maxat least about 900kbps with Sony's LDAC codec, aptX transmits a little over 500kbps. AAC BT is at about 380kbps.
However, CD lossless format needs miniat least 1411kbps. So via BT it is passable at the moment, if Apple will not introduce a new lossless codec for BT that can use the entire BT5 band (2Mbits) on maximum.
On the other hand, wifi is fine even for hi-res, so anything that supports it AirPlay 2 via wifi, no problems.
Regarding AirPods MAX via cable, a SW modification and not using a lightning adapter with the DAC should be enough and transfer lossless ALAC via cable directly to the headphones (do not convert D/AA/D).
If it is after AirPlay 2 will run, so it's fine.
It's just a shame that even BigSur isn't up to date. AirI don't support Play in version 2 :-(
Wanting that tragedy in the name Homepod mini as HiFi it's funny. I have it here on my desk and if I play the sound from the iMac 27 speakers, the bass component is quite similar, but the iMac, despite its limitations, has a more detailed sound. Not to mention Google Nest Mini 2, which offers a similar performance feeling, only costs a few hundred. Throw away a quality solution of a large Homeand deliver something mediocre to the market like Mini is a mistake. Sometimes even a master carpenter cuts himself.