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    New Bluetooth, same old shite

    Aug 25, 2022 3 minutes
    Jez Ford, Editor

    Only last issue I was having a whinge about companies claiming high-res audio via Bluetooth (which can’t be done). But just as that issue went to press, I heard about a whole new Bluetooth spec from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), including a new standard audio codec, which is to be called LC3. Audio geek that I am, a new Bluetooth codec is exciting stuff to me, and I grabbed the new spec sheets with enthusiasm.

    I was disappointed. Perhaps I should have known better, because ever since I

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