What’s the next big thing you predict will happen with audio tech after 2022?

[AmalfiMan]

Will Samsung, Apple get into the Dac Amps tech?
Will BLUETOOTH offer lossless?

 

[milokinni]

Will Samsung, Apple get into the Dac Amps tech?
Will BLUETOOTH offer lossless?

Didn't Qualcomm just announce lossless Redbook audio over Bluetooth just last September?

 

[sq225917]

Doesn't Apple already have full lossless over wireless in hardware on all their phones since the iphone12, just waiting for the new airpods to unlock it, aiui.

 

[Katji]

Will Samsung, Apple get into the Dac Amps tech?

They do already, integrated into products/devices that need them. They're certainly not going to make separate/discrete DAC or amplifiers. In terms of audio, Apple is on a roll with spatial audio.

btw, What Apple is doing now/next (and it does relate to AV) is...

Apple Rumored to Announce 'Game-Changer' AR/VR Headset in January 2023

Kuo said that the device is "the most complicated product Apple has ever designed," leading Apple to use components from many of its existing suppliers. Kuo also believes that Apple will be an industry leader in the headset space, has "significant competitive advantages," and does not need to join the Metaverse Standards Forum. Notably, Kuo thinks that rivals will race to imitate Apple's headset once it launches, "leading the headset hardware industry to the next stage of rapid growth."

" I know there are a lot of naysayers for this product but this is a potential iPhone moment. A see it to believe it product. Apple's big product intros tend to be 10 years in the making. The concept has been around for a long time but nobody has done it quite right. The weight of the headset, the miniaturisation of optical components, Apple's processor advances, software and tools development via iOS and so many factors play in to this having transformative potential. "

" It really looks like a very slow game of chess. They have been developing tech (see: LIDARs, AR, SOCs) sometimes with modest short term gains, and everything looks like converging now into a grandmaster checkmate. "

 

[Trdat]

The Chinese designing AVR's with prestine SINAD levels with sound engineering at affordable prices.

 

[Katji]

Btw, the Apple VR headset, expensive, about $3000, but now it just ocurred to me, how much is that Naim thing - amp+DAC+streamer? ... $3800 LOL

 

[Snoopy]

I hope new DACs bei akm.
And there will be probably more R2R DACs by Chinese manufacturers.

 

[Lambda]

Will Samsung, Apple get into the Dac Amps tech?
Will BLUETOOTH offer lossless?

You do realize they make Speaker with WiFi?

 

[AmalfiMan]

They do already, integrated into products/devices that need them. They're certainly not going to make separate/discrete DAC or amplifiers. In terms of audio, Apple is on a roll with spatial audio.

btw, What Apple is doing now/next (and it does relate to AV) is...

Apple Rumored to Announce 'Game-Changer' AR/VR Headset in January 2023

Kuo said that the device is "the most complicated product Apple has ever designed," leading Apple to use components from many of its existing suppliers. Kuo also believes that Apple will be an industry leader in the headset space, has "significant competitive advantages," and does not need to join the Metaverse Standards Forum. Notably, Kuo thinks that rivals will race to imitate Apple's headset once it launches, "leading the headset hardware industry to the next stage of rapid growth."

" I know there are a lot of naysayers for this product but this is a potential iPhone moment. A see it to believe it product. Apple's big product intros tend to be 10 years in the making. The concept has been around for a long time but nobody has done it quite right. The weight of the headset, the miniaturisation of optical components, Apple's processor advances, software and tools development via iOS and so many factors play in to this having transformative potential. "

" It really looks like a very slow game of chess. They have been developing tech (see: LIDARs, AR, SOCs) sometimes with modest short term gains, and everything looks like converging now into a grandmaster checkmate. "

Airpod max is a bomb because it’s uncomfortable. This new apple better be as comfortable as the HD800S otherwise people will pass.