pippin;696895 Wrote: 
> Oh wow. In this case they really do a lot of sample rate
> transformation.
> AirPlay, at least when streaming from an iOS device (iPhone/iPad/iPod)
> streams 16/44.1, that's the only format iOS devices support internally
> and I don't believe (again: don't know; I know the "only works with
> 16/44.1 internally" thing) they are upsampling on the device so the
> AppleTV would do that.
> 
> It makes a lot of sense for a video device to use 48kHz since all the
> DVD/... formats use that but it means they do modify the sound a lot.
> 
> And what does this tell us: my theory above holds: artifacts sound good
> to some people :)

Absolutely, it also makes sense from a cost point of view.  No DAC, no
extra crystals, after all it is a TV Box.

Dave


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