Apple’s $19 usbc wired earbuds allows impressive lossless & hires lossless audio compression on Apple and android products with usbc. The resulting sound quality rivals my AirPod Pro 2 ($249) and my Beats Studio pro ($349) in the uppermid range, I also do a mic test of all three headphones for phone calls and recordings.

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Apple Lossless compression: The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), also known as Apple Lossless, or Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE), is an audio coding format, and its reference audio codec implementation, developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. After initially keeping it proprietary from its inception in 2004, in late 2011 Apple made the codec available open source and royaltyfree. Traditionally, Apple has referred to the codec as Apple Lossless, though more recently it has begun to use the abbreviated term ALAC when referring to the codec

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