The real reason why high-end Bluetooth headphones don’t perform as well as you’d expect them to

You’ve done your homework; You’ve researched high-end headphones and paired them with expensive Hi-Res music streaming services, but something just doesn’t feel right. Your tunes won’t sound as good as they do with wired headphones or speakers. The point is, of course, that you’re listening via Bluetooth — a convenient and seamless way to listen to music on our phones.

I’ll spare you the history lesson, but the great irony is that Bluetooth was never designed to transfer high-fidelity media between devices. The earliest Bluetooth audio specifications were for heavily compressed, mono-band speeds, a far cry from the studio-quality masters you can hear today.