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Lossless audio for Apple Music is confusing to set up for Mac, but it's worth it for the spicy audio quality. In this tutorial, I'll teach you how to set up lossless audio on your MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac Studio, Mac Pro, etc. I'll also show you some of my favorite cheap/budget DACs and headphones for audiophile lossless audio bliss.
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0:00 lossless lyfe
0:32 lossless audio explained
1:19 equipment
2:43 DACs
7:34 headphones
9:00 Mac settings
10:59 lossless love
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Lossless audio is incredibly spicy 🌶
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Thank you for this video! I think you’re the only one on YT showcasing USB-C DACs for the MacBook Pro. Great job explaining how to set up the sample rates too!
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏🏼
Great video. Thanks much for the explanations and recommendations 👍
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching 👌🏼
Very big thumbs up! Using Fiio FH3 and Fido Q3 DAC but always high res albums never turn High res for me until I change settings from midi, thank you ! Finally indicator turned to amber color, testing with Beyer Dynamics DT990 PRO 250 Ohms now...
Glad it helped!
Thanks!
Great video bro..a good dac and some iems is a beautiful thing to listen too
It really is! I was initially skeptical about lossless, but once the DAC and IEMs hit I was like…damnnnnn
@@b3naqua so clean..
Thank you
Great video!👍👍👍
i own a 2017 macbook air, i just bought the edifiers r1700, is it worth to pickup a 100 usd dac like the ifi zen air dac?
Really helped thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Great video and very well paced. Keep up the great work. I still cannot justify paying over $100 for a DAC. The Fiio BTR5 does look very cool and I'm sure it is high quality but the price tag is overboard. When I listen to lossless via Apple Music on my Mac or iPhone, I am still using the $9 Apple lightning to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter. It features a built-in DAC and supports up to 24/48. IMO, it is the most underrated and budget friendly DAC out there for casual listeners.
Thanks! The lightning to 3.5mm adapter sounds awesome! I use it a lot with my phone too. 👍🏼
Quality comes at a price. But that makes sense when you have a good pair of iems for sure
which headphones do you use for it ?
@@reece3134 check the video at 7:34
How do you reset the Audio MIDI Setup app to defaults?
is there any typec to coaxial or optical converter?
Excellent video !!! Answered all the questions I’ve been looking for all day!!
One question (Jan 2024): iPhone 15 Pro Max is it capable of sending hi-res 192kHz/24 bit without an external DAC !?
if you're talking about using the headphone dongle(be it lighting or usb c to 3.5mm) unfortunately that cannot do high res lossless. it tops out at 24 bit 48khz if i remember correctly, which is still very high. if you want higher than that you can get a usb c dac. the ones in this video would work great.
Do you have any experience with the DAC in the standard M1 13 inch macbook air and pro? If so, are they any good?
Yes, I used a MacBook Air M1 for several months and the DAC/amp used for the headphone jack sounds really good! It supports up to 96khz and sounds clean. I'd say the audio profile is very similar to the 14 inch MBP M1 Pro.
what are some good hi-res lossless playlists or albums on apple music? Can you tell the dif between lossless and hi res lossless?
Check out this playlist of all lossless trax: music.apple.com/us/playlist/lossless-heaven/pl.u-P04ZtMbkNE
I can't really tell the difference between lossless and hi res tbh. They both sound amazing!
I have a good built-in DAC in my NAD c388 integrated Amp. What's the best (cleanest) HiFi solution to get music on my Mac Mini M1 to my Stereo system?
I want a direct digital signal to the NAD's DAC unit without having to convert and reconvert the digital music files on my Mac on the signal path to the NAD Amp.
Edit: In other words, I want to bypass the Mac's internal DAC and possibly all other DACs on the signal path to my NAD stereo DAC. A pure unaltered digital signal, if you will.
what about the Shanling UA2 USB Dac how does it stack up against macbook pro own audio port ?
not sure, haven't tried that DAC
I have a focusrite audio interface that I use for music production. Do I still need a DAC if I have one of those?
Those have pretty good DACs, so you should be fine using it if it works for you!
Hi Ben, I don’t see in the Audio MIDI setup screen that the laptop recognizes any of my DACS. What should I do? My USB C to USB C cables aren’t anything fancy. Could this be the problem?
Try a different usb-c cable. Some cables are just meant for charging, where other ones charge and allow data pass through.
I own an xDuoo DAC and amp. They use Qualcomm codecs such as aptX .
They’ve developed a Bluetooth 5.3 transmitter MX-01.
I was only able to get aptX until this. I finally got aptX LL. I also hit 48KHz.
It’s not Apple Lossless but it’s their Qualcomm form of Bluetooth lossless.
truth
It doesn't seem possible for an MP3 converting to Wav to add missing information. Do you know if it can?
I have some old MP3's and Apple Music allows me to convert to wave but this must be for compatibility to software / programs. I can't imagine that all the information is there to uncompress when it doesn't take up the space of a full wav file.
when converting an mp3 to a wav, no, it will not have true lossless quality. it will be uncompressed, but all the quality that was lost when initially compressing the file is gone forever.
Do I need to do some output setting on iPhone to play on 192khz32bits??
The highest it will go is 24-bit/192khz
The problem with your midi settings for the Mac is that all your music from apple will now be upsampled to 32 bit 384khz. Even when you play a lower quality song. Unlike the iPhone and iPad the Mac doesn't support auto switching. This way you are not getting the highest quality audio. Every time you play a song you should change the midi settings to match that song to get the highest audio quality. That sucks and Apple should fix this with an update.
Good point! Hopefully Apple updates macOS to enable auto-switching like on iOS. I prefer the iOS/iPadOS Music experience way more than on Mac.
This was the info I was looking for. How do you even find the Midi settings for each song that you're playing??
same concern
It should be added that it depends on the DAC and headphones whether you can hear the difference. With a cheaper unit, the difference mentioned above may not even be noticeable.
@@MowSow iPhone doesn’t not have DAC by itself at all
Thanks for sharing this info... If I connect my mac (jack 3.5 output) to my desktop PC in windows (jack 3.5 aux input sound card) and route the sound with voicemeet (ensuring that is set in 192Khz) to my DAC will I lose quality? I'm doing this because the apple Music app for windows is unstable in lossless mode and I use my desktop for work and I have a Stream Deck to trigger quick actions like pause the music and activate the mic when I am in a meeting...
I will answer to myself and yes... I just notice in Audio Midi Setup that Jack 3.5 from the mac just output 96Khz....
You might lose a tiny bit of audio fidelity with several routing formations in a row, but it probably won’t be very audible tbh
I love lossless but have the problem the downloaded files are HLS and cant remotely control the Mac via Apple Remote app on iOS device so have to stream. Problem confirmed to me with Apple support. Otherwise would be perfect.
Ah that’s a strange bug. Hopefully Apple will fix it asap 👌🏼
Ben, what does the Sound enhancer do? Do I turn it on or off? if on then at what level? I am using Sennheiser HD 599 on my Macbook Air M1....please advise
For high rez. No
Sound enhancer adds compression and other audio effects to the music, so you're hearing a synthetic, beefed up, louder version of it. I prefer to leave it off though because it makes music sound too over-compressed and unnatural to me. I'd rather hear the music unfiltered, the way the artist intended.
turn it off. its not audiophile at all, its just for the average consumer if they want. it adds compression and changes the sound
Does Lossless Audio also work via USB-C headphones? Since the iOS devices lack a Headphone-jack
It does, if your headphones contain an internal DAC that supports higher resolution audio. For example, the Apple usb-c EarPods have a built-in DAC that supports 24/48 lossless. Plug it in to your iOS device, enable lossless audio in Music settings, and you're good to go!
I have a macbook air Retina, 13-inch, 2020, can I get lossless audio out via it's USB to an external DAC ?
Yup
@@b3naqua Thanks for the answer :)
I just learned that the Apple Music settings is on the menu bar lol.. I was looking on the app the whole time like windows
lol yup
Random ass question: when I’m playing music through my MacBook’s speakers, will that audio playing be lossless/ hi-res lossless or the default AAC? Same question for the iPhone.
The internal speakers will be playing lossless audio. I think they’re limited to 24/48 tho?
Hi! I had a question that I thought you could answer to. Is ANC (Active Noise Cancelling) affecting lossless audio quality? Is it still lossless when ANC is enabled? Thanks in advance, hope you can help me
ANC messes with the audio signal a bunch, so I'd assume it's not lossless anymore with ANC on
are there wired headphones with anc? is that a thing?
Any reason why I'm not seeing the Lossless option in the Music app on MacOS 12.3.1?
It might be an older file that you had already had downloaded or bought on iTunes through another way. Try looking at file info, (Get Info->File), and check the bitrate and file location
Hey Ben, I have a Beyerdynamic DT 700 pro x headphone. Does it need a DAC for lossless audio?
You can either use the MacBook Pro’s headphone jack or an external DAC w those headphones!
@@b3naqua Thank you. I have a macbook pro M1, so I don't need a DAC? how about iPhone 14 pro? or iPad mini 6?
Would a scarlett 2i2 interface work?
It should
Thanks for the video, a quick question… with a DAC connected to an iMac, what options are there for listening besides headphones?
you could plug some hires speakers into the DAC too
Isn't apple developing a wireless service that works with there wireless earbuds and airpods max that will do lossless audio but it's not through bluetooth I seen a review on it
That would be a game-changer!
do you need a DAC with a MacBook air M1?
I actually made a video about that question: th-cam.com/video/h1JEHD-CukU/w-d-xo.html
Where do I find audio and midi settings?
Do a spotlight search for it or ask Siri to open it
can I use MBP 14" own speakers for listening to lossless?
Yes! Tho you’ll get much better fidelity from external speakers or headphones
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Never Use the Digital Volume Control
Always go with the One from the DAC
Thats why they Max out
5:55 "your ears will explode". sounds like your talking from personal experience haha. And at 3:20 your covering your face up.
haha I covered my face up cuz my camera kept trying to focus on it and wouldn't focus on the other stuff lol
Can I just use my audio interface for hi res ?
yup!
@@b3naqua oooh I found out after commenting this, got a Mac and my hi res is a life changer
@@lilboat1001 yessss it’s so good!
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u mean da cmd/ctrl+x to cmd/ctrl+v???
🙃😂 I haven’t used Windows in like 15 years lol
0:04 gettin into yuh
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phenominal lol
If your paying for it, its not free.
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