AptX Adaptive

aptX Adaptive

aptX Adaptive is a next-generation dynamically adjustable audio codec intended for premium audio quality and low-latency. aptX Adaptive's bitrate scales dynamically between 279 kbit/s and 420 kbit/s. It also works with a shared, rather than dedicated, wireless antenna. Qualcomm claims their new compression algorithm provides a compression ratio between 5:1 to 10:1. This allows aptX Adaptive at 279 kbit/s and 420 kbit/s to produce the same sound quality as aptX at 352 kbit/s and aptX HD at 576 kbit/s. aptX Adaptive supports 16 and 24 bit-depths at 44.1, 48, and 96 kHz sample rates. Actual 96 kHz support, however, is depending on actual product hardware implementation. For example, B&O H95 only support 48 kHz at max even with AptX Adaptive support. Hardware aptX Adaptive has end-to-end latency of 80 ms, but most phones are using a software transmitter - which does not have any latency advantages over other codecs. aptX Adaptive is also backward compatible with older aptX and aptX HD codecs, but not with aptX LL.