What about apt-HD ? how's the quality ?
AptX HD implementation on Pixel 2 XL, on the other side, is subpar. I sometimes get nasty clicks on music with high dynamic range and there's no way to avoid them other than to set output codec to anything but aptX HD, which tremendously affects the quality.
Google might not be at fault here, I suspect this is Qualcomm code.
The difference in quality is HUGE for music, not so much for anything else.