Apple has its eye on high end audio

Now all they need is high resolution content to stream to their devices. Regardless of what people's opinions are of both Apple and MQA. Having MQA or high resolution content on Apple Music would help high quality be more accessible to many more people.
 
they can start by taking the governor off airPlay -- it currently converts every thing to ALAC: 16/44.1 before sending it to the selected endpoint. even roon, using an airPlay endpoint, downsamples hi-res files to 16/44.1
 
aKnyght said:
they can start by taking the governor off airPlay -- it currently converts every thing to ALAC: 16/44.1 before sending it to the selected endpoint. even roon, using an airPlay endpoint, downsamples hi-res files to 16/44.1
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Airplay 2 is in out of testing right now. It was announced at the last WWDC.
 
Dr Tone said:
Airplay 2 is in out of testing right now. It was announced at the last WDC.
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best i can tell, airPlay 2 is for iOS devices and allows them to stream to multiple sources. haven't seen anything indicating they are changing the aipPlay protocol where streams are transcoded with ALAC at 16/44.1... just haven't seen anything, so could be wrong about this.
 
I'm sure Apple's idea of an "audiophile product" will not be "audiophile enough" for the audiophile masses on this forum. :)
 
aKnyght said:
best i can tell, airPlay 2 is for iOS devices and allows them to stream to multiple sources. haven't seen anything indicating they are changing the aipPlay protocol where streams are transcoded with ALAC at 16/44.1... just haven't seen anything, so could be wrong about this.
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I think you are correct, I saw HD mentioned elsewhere but apparently that was just misinformed babble.
 
mdp632 said:
Now all they need is high resolution content to stream to their devices. Regardless of what people's opinions are of both Apple and MQA. Having MQA or high resolution content on Apple Music would help high quality be more accessible to many more people.
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Apple likely has been storing high res content for years. As I recall, their "mastered for iTunes" specs recommended that content providers send Apple the high resolution files which they would convert to the format used in the iTunes store. They've been doing this for a number of years so they potentially have content, already.
 
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