Qubus sublime offer some sort of 24bit https://forum.ickstream.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=392&start=10
Why I'm against it it just another proprietary format in an industry already fragmented by to many closed formats like iTunes etc. No one really needs yet another format . If someone wants to develop an universal high quality streaming format it should IMO be completely open source . There are technical reasons why DASH or similar is implemented so a format better suited to steaming and handling all the traffic in better way may be what the industry needs . But I suppose Moores law will make streaming cd quality flac quite feasible anyway . Maybe we need THE FORMAT whatever that is streaming and online purchasing and downloads seems to me being locked into a decade long never ending format war . I just whished it could end . I see MQA as a shameless money grab . If I would be King for a day I say FLAC and MP3 and that's it :) flac do support all kinds of bitrates btw 24 bit would work . And soundquality wise 16/44.1 is not a limiting factor . 1 the recordings or 2 our biology is the limit . I been suckered into the Hirez thing before in my life as I have hundreds of DVDA disc to prove that . It is not a proven fact quite the opposite that resolution above 16/44.1 is needed for human listeners . Meridian has done some very bad "research" lately trying to prove thier point both about pre ringing in filters and the need for > 20 kHz frequencies in audio I suspect it's more marketing than research . I would love discrete multichannel streaming :) no one up for that ? So there is no point what's so ever to stream 24 bit audio as thier is no point in 24 bit audio in general . Ultraviolet television would make more sense then I could get a tan viewing wildlife documentaries .... But I do cheer on if someone wants to develop this if large proportion of the streaming industry adopts it we need it whether we like it or not ! Just like ntsc never was the best to format or vhs never was the best video format . We simply have to use the formats our content is delivered in . But I cringe a bit when a format is sold to us with no readable rationale behind it ? -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux 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=102648 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
