Bluetooth audio compression

[platinumsage]

I have a PC with all my music on as FLAC files. At the moment the PC has no bluetooth capability. In order to use wireless headphones, I guess I can buy a bluetooth PCIe card or USB dongle. Bluetooth 5 seems to be the newest standard.

However I'm confused about what audio quality I will get. I want to listen to the FLAC files as I would with wired headphones. If bluetooth is going to make it 192Kbps or something, I'm not interested.

This article confuses me more, but it seems lossless compression isn't possible over bluetooth? And if it were I'd have to know that my bluetooth adapter and headphones were agreeing with each other. It also seem very opaque - how can I know what kind of compression would have been applied to the output from a random set of bluetooth headphones linked to a particular bluetooth adapter?

 

[Pickman's model]

someone you know may have already gone through this or something like this so if you ask about you might find a friend or relative who has a set-up you can try

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

The tl;dr version is that yes, it’s a confusing mess and some degree of compression will happen. Whether it’s actually audible to your ears is a different matter...

 

[platinumsage]

The tl;dr version is that yes, it’s a confusing mess and some degree of compression will happen. Whether it’s actually audible to your ears is a different matter...

It would be handy to know what degree of compression, so I could decide whether it was a trade-off I'd be happy shelling out the money for. I don't see anything that provides a clue on bluetooth headphone specs though...

 

[Aquamarine]

Please can anybody suggest what I need to do - to get a Juice Jumbo marshmallow speaker and a Bluetooth USB to hook up. They both are plugged in to my laptop and appear as devices on the machine but still no sound........

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Please can anybody suggest what I need to do - to get a Juice Jumbo marshmallow speaker and a Bluetooth USB to hook up. They both are plugged in to my laptop and appear as devices on the machine but still no sound........

Bluetooth devices need to be "paired", should be able to do this form the bluetooth settings on the laptop. You'll also need to put the speaker into pairing mode so it listens for a new connection.