Qobuz 192 won’t play?

[MDJAK]

Hi. Rather new here so if wrong section please move.

I recently got back into audio after going head long into home theater.

I bought a McIntosh MC 462 and a Moon Mind 2 as my streamer. I have a subscription to Qobuz and I’ve been having a good time revisiting some old favorites and new tracks. Once in a while a high def track will come up and I hear nothing. I was thinking there was a problem with my internet. I then realized it’s when the track is at 192 (not sure the unit of measure) that I’m hearing silence. Every other track lower on the measurement scale plays fine. For now and the foreseeable future I’m using a Marantz 7702 as my preamp. Is that where the limitation lies? I have it connected via toslink to the cd input.

 

[Jack]

The limitation is most likely with the Toslink cable and input. You need to look at the Marantz manual for the maximums on each input.

 

[MDJAK]

Ty. I skimmed the 347 or so pgs last night and didn’t see any limitation of cd or toslink input. I’ll have to continue digging.

 

[aKnyght]

the manual for my DAC lists the max input for TOS-Link as 96-kHz / 24-bit. pretty sure this is the max for many / most DACs. that is still quite a large amount of audio data and i cannot really hear any difference between 96 and 192-kHz -- YMMV

 

[MDJAK]

the manual for my DAC lists the max input for TOS-Link as 96-kHz / 24-bit. pretty sure this is the max for many / most DACs. that is still quite a large amount of audio data and i cannot really hear any difference between 96 and 192-kHz -- YMMV

Thank you. DACs are new to me. I’m obviously using the DAC in the Marantz is my guess. There is also a coax input next to the toslink. Do you think that would not have that same limitation? And all in all, I’m sure you are right that I too would not hear a difference. But having never heard 192, I’d like to try. Lol.

 

[aKnyght]

Thank you. DACs are new to me. I’m obviously using the DAC in the Marantz is my guess. There is also a coax input next to the toslink. Do you think that would not have that same limitation? And all in all, I’m sure you are right that I too would not hear a difference. But having never heard 192, I’d like to try. Lol.

the Marantz 7702 manual on their website lists 192/24 for FLAC and WAV streaming -- interestingly it lists only 96/24 for ALAC files. so, you should be able to get 192/24 from a coax input, but i was unable to find that stated explicitly.

 

[MDJAK]

the Marantz 7702 manual on their website lists 192/24 for FLAC and WAV streaming -- interestingly it lists only 96/24 for ALAC files. so, you should be able to get 192/24 from a coax input, but i was unable to find that stated explicitly.

TYVM. I just ordered a coax cable from bluejeans. I’m sure I have some lying around somewhere.

btw, what is the difference between ALAC and FLAC?

 

[aKnyght]

ALAC is apple's proprietary version of FLAC -- they are sonically identical (at least theoretically as i am sure you will find someone with an opinion here). functionally, the player has to have the codec to decode the file into an audio stream -- so, the ability to play one or the other depends upon the software installed on the hardware. nowadays, most players can play both but there are always exceptions.

helpful link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format

 

[MDJAK]

Got it working. Ty. Received the coax cable from bluejeans, reassigned coax 2 to DVD input and 192 is working.

nice to have it working, but as stated above, so far I cannot tell a difference. Lol.

 

[W9TR]

You can’t tell a difference probably because most everything is recorded and mastered in 24/96. So chances are your 192kHz started life as 96 kHz recordings that were upsampled to 192 kHz.