Logitech Buys Jaybird for $50 Million in Cash

[Convicted_pillowcase]

Logitech has now acquired Jaybird, makers of the Jaybird Bluebus, and Bluebuds X2 reviewed by Linus.

 

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/12/11418650/logitech-buys-headphone-maker-jaybird-for-50-million-acquisition

 

Pretty interesting to see how Logitech might improve the company and its products. I have the first Bluebuds X myself.

[CtrlAltELITE]

I wouldve loved to have seen that briefcase, or for such a large amount would they have used some form of lockbox or van?

[atrash]

Need some tweaking with the news. Try putting some quotes from the article into the post and you're all set.

[cloneman]

It's gonna be interesting to see weather apple is finally gonna support some sort of lossless codec for wireless on the iPhone 7. I'm very satisfied with jaybird's bluebuds x even though it's lossy SBC,, but it really depends what device you pair it with, some devices choose a lower bitrate codec.

[Sauron]

5 minutes ago, cloneman said:

It's gonna be interesting to see weather apple is finally gonna support some sort of lossless codec for wireless on the iPhone 7. I'm very satisfied with jaybird's bluebuds x even though it's lossy SBC,, but it really depends what device you pair it with, some devices choose a lower bitrate codec.

As long as the bitrate is fairly high there is no noticeable difference between lossy and lossless

[cloneman]

4 minutes ago, Sauron said:

As long as the bitrate is fairly high there is no noticeable difference between lossy and lossless

Most bluetooth source devices don't allow you to change or view the bitrate they are running at though. Worse, many stacks default to a lower bitrate (on Windows 7 the only one that worked for me was Toshiba bluetooth, and I had to wait for android 6.0 to get good qualify on my jaybirds). On OSX, the setting is tweakable and high bitrate by default.

 

If there was  a better standard supported across many devices it would take some of the guesswork out.

[ShadowCaptain]

Awesome logitech actually have some decent headphones with the UE range and now Jaybird

[Ridska]

Well , Welll just have to see and wait on where this goes.

[Senzelian]

Logitech will soon be the new Razer

[RZeroX]

Logitech already has some pretty high end iem now they have these.

[potoooooooo]

17 hours ago, CtrlAltELITE said:

I wouldve loved to have seen that briefcase, or for such a large amount would they have used some form of lockbox or van?

Cash just means they're giving them money, not stocks or something.

 

It's not actually going to be bills

[EndlessOyster]

surprised jaybird is worth so little.

[christianled59]

10 minutes ago, EndlessOyster said:

surprised jaybird is worth so little.

"with a potential earn-out of an additional $45 million if growth targets are met."