Speaking of high quality radio stations, Congratulations to the BBC for giving us 320K streams, absolutely brilliant particularly for the Radio 3 service, now all the BBC need do is to improve the content.
> On 5 Feb 2016, at 9:14 AM, Les Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > > i have a apple tv 3rd gen and 4th gen. what i noticed is the sound quality is > all dependent upon the original source. they give alot of free radio stations > that are great, but it tells you the quality of each and some are streaming > in low quality audio. others are in high quality. i noticed a clear > difference in the sound. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <[email protected]> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:06 PM > Subject: Re: Now I know why music on the Apple TV 3rd Gen doesn't sound > sogood... > > > Well to be perfectly honest that’s Apple for you and where would you find any > serious audio reviews about anything Apple? > > Okay, I did find plenty of reviews and information regarding the audio for my > 2012 Mac Mini machine but Apple just won’t release too much information about > anything else it seems when it comes to audio. > > I’m glad you mentioned that about the Apple TV and now I’m having second > thoughts about that purchase for myself too. > > >> On 5 Feb 2016, at 5:38 AM, John Gurd <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I got an Apple TV 3rd Gen a year or so ago to use with MusicMatch and my >> HiFi. I was really disappointed to discover that it really didn't sound that >> great even with a HDMI connection. I recently read that for some reason it >> resamples music from 44.1KHZ to 48KHZ. This is the equivalent to transcoding >> on the fly which is inevitably going to sound terrible. >> >> >> >> The thing is, I really love the new Apple music service and I am tempted to >> buy the Apple TV 4th Gen in order to use the service with my living room >> system. But once bitten, twice shy. I haven't been able to find out if it >> handles music in the same way. I haven't even been able to find any serious >> reviews of its audio quality. >> >> >> >> John >> >> >> > > ********** > Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the > halfwits in this world behind. > > > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
