JohnSwenson;512393 Wrote: 
> Yes, the hardware can support 24/192. The DAC can do it and the
> oscillators are of sufficient frequency to support it from the
> processor. The one issue is optical out. The TOSLINK modules being sold
> today do not have a high enough bandwidth to reliably handle 192.
> (Toshiba used to make a high speed one, but they don't make it any
> more). The Coax S/PDIF out should have no problem with 192. 
> 
> There are several "levels" of software support that have to exist in
> order to do it. 
> 
> First is the ALSA driver. I don't know if that supports 192. I've used
> it at 96 but I haven't tried it at 192. It should be easy to try. Just
> try and play a 24/192 wave file using aplay and the HW interface. If the
> driver supports 192 it will play, otherwise it won't. 
> 
> If it does not support 192 then the driver will have to be modified.
> Given they have a working driver for 96 adding 176 and 192 should not be
> too difficult.
> 
> Then there is the audio code inside squeezeplay. It has to know that
> 192 exists and can be sent to the ALSA driver. I haven't checked the
> code for that.
> 
> Then there is slimproto or whatever they are calling it now. The actual
> streaming protocol has to know about 192, and sqeezeplay has to
> recognize that and do the right thing with it.
> 
> Last is SBS. It has to know about 192 and know that something is 192
> and what to do with it. Since it is currently being downsampled it seems
> like SBS knows about it. So it most likely needs to be updated so it
> knows the Touch could play 192 so it won't resample.
> 
> So the two biggies seem to be: does slimproto handle 192, and does the
> Touch ALSA driver support 192.
> 
> So yes it IS just software, but there might be several pieces of
> software that need to be updated to make it work.
> 
> John S.

SBS, slimproto, and ALSA all support 192/24. The new VortexBox player
supports 192/24 and it has been working very well with SBS.


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