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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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