GreenGrass;696996 Wrote: > I find this thread very timely. I have a Boom in a bedroom, a Classic > connected to a stereo in my office, and a Duet in my family room. Love > them all. However, I have ordered the new Apple TV with hopes of it > replacing my Duet. > > My reasons to move forward are that I have finally given up waiting for > Apple to support flac, so I am duplicating my flac library to Apple > Lossless so it is friendly with all the Apple stuff I have accumulated > (3 iPhones, iPad, etc). Since I will now have an Apple Lossless > library, I see no reason than to use it (unless the audio is poor). In > looking at the specs, I read that the ATV supports up to 24-bit/48khz. > This is the same as the Duet (note that the SBT supports up to 96khz). > I currently use the coaxial out of the Duet and will use the optical out > of the ATV, so I will be using the same DAC.
You can use ALAC with squeezeboxes the server will transcode that it increase the server load but thats all . Do test the atv with a dts (wav or flac containing dts or dd ) file to a home cinema amp if this becomes only white noise the atv is not bitperfect there be some processing somewhere. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94223 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
