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> So what's the holdup?

Judging by the incredibly fractured state of bluetooth codecs in general I'm gonna blame patents and the completely fucked up and maligned governance of the bluetooth standards body.

You only have to take one glance at the professional performance space to understand that the problems were solved before bluetooth even existed, and today there are completely free and open codecs in use in wireless mic and in-ear-monitors that beat the speed-of-sound latency of a speaker 15 feet away. That's the point of professional monitors, after all.

The entire bluetooth ecosystem is the most gigantic tech clusterfuck there is. It's amazing it even works.



> It's amazing it even works.

I find that my life contains less frustration when I act as though it doesn't work.




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