![]() However, I was surprised to learn that the HomePod can also stream this better-than-CD-quality 24-bit/48kHz audio using AirPlay. This isn’t news: Apple added 24-bit lossless playback (via Apple’s ALAC codec) to the first-gen HomePod and HomePod mini in 2021, along with Dolby Atmos support. The new second-gen HomePod, which Apple released in January, can stream lossless 24-bit/48kHz audio directly from Apple Music, using its own Wi-Fi connection to the internet. But it seems that AirPlay can actually do 24-bit audio. The conventional wisdom has always been that AirPlay sets a hard limit on audio quality: iPhones and other Apple devices can only transmit lossless CD-quality audio, at 16-bit/44.1kHz, to an AirPlay-enabled speaker, leaving the technology incapable of supporting the higher-res streams now being offered by Apple Music and others. When at home, on a Wi-Fi network, it outperforms Bluetooth thanks to its wider bandwidth. ![]() Fitbit Versa 3Īpple’s wireless platform for audio and video streaming - AirPlay - is one of the best ways to play music from an Apple device to a wireless speaker. ![]()
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