musiklov3r;227679 Wrote: > But I am concerned about the depreciation on the player when various > audiophile formats become available on Blu-ray or HDDVD.
What new formats? There won't be any. The industry has played with hi-res formats in DVDA and SACD, and they have failed (OK, there -are -a fair few SACDs of classical music). AFAIK there are no agreed standards for hi-res lossless formats on these new discs, just lots of ways of putting many surround channels in. If you wait to see what happens when hi-res is widely available on disc, I suspect you will be waiting a long time! The only conceivable solution is hi-res downloads, such as provided by Linn and HDTT. These will be in PCM format, and the Transporter plays them already. The only reason to wait (format wise) is for the vague possibility of 24/192 playback, which the TP does not do (ATM). Is it really worth waiting for something that is decidedly unlikely to have an audible difference? There was a thread recently in which Sean hinted that it may be feasible to get the TP to decode SACD, but as there is no way to rip SACDs (without rather serious hardware hacks) and no downloads available, it ain't gonna happen. Adam -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ 'Last.fm group: people who don't listen to any of last.fm's top artists' (http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+don%27t+listen+to+any+of+last.fm%27s+top+artists) SB+, EAR 859, Heybrook Sextets plus some other stuff SB3, Shek d2, Ming-Da MC84-C, Harbeth HL-P3ES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38379 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
