Isn't that Bluetooth file transfer? Good idea but I guess the idea of a streaming protocol is it addresses realtime concerns in an unreliable medium. Imho that's the kind of thing analogue coding schemes are better at.

Of course this is correct if you being with a lossless file, but if you start with an already lossy file, despite it being possible to sound the same as a lossless file, when you re-encode it with a different encoding, for example ogg -> mp3, you'll lose different parts of the file in the compression algorithm, so it will end up sounding worse.

I can't say I know how the different bluetooth audio codecs work of course.

I don't think it is? He said:

> Your Kenwood may not support the higher quality codecs, meaning it would sound worse than a comparable headphone jack aux cable.

That implies there's BT audio codecs that sound the same (or I guess better, but I think he/she probably meant "same") as an aux cable. I was saying I don't think that's true, that even the best BT audio codecs are (noticeably) inferior to in-phone-DAC-to-analog connections.