Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3

[Have at ye]

FLAC in general is a little higher effectiveness, not sure why that would change with bluetooth speakers.

I don't know if bluetooth speakers lose any quality or frequency, but others have reported they use them and it's been fine. You can also try the speaker test on them.

I've tried the speaker test and no problem.. I was more enquiring as to whether anyone knew whether the subliminal element would be affected through Bluetooth.. don't really know enough about the exact technical details as to bit transfer / loss etc.

Well, i'm not sure, I don't know enough about that either unfortunately.

Not every company implemented support for lossless audio transfer. The only way to know it if not exactly mentioned in the product description is to ask the company about maximum bitrate and the way the audio is transferred.

From what I learned on the Internetz, the Bluetooth protocol will re-encode data that is not supported by it - this would include FLAC, unfortunately. It can do MP3 no problem, though. As to bitrate, it's a good idea to check. From Blutetooth 4.0 onward it should be able to handle at least 1mbp/s, but this might depend on the how the particular device is programmed.

When in doubt, find a pro audio store with a good nerd at the counter and ask him. They usually know their stuff.