New Airport Express

[same same but different]

1. Bitperfect output for 44.1 confirmed using HDCD ripped tracks. The HDCD light on my Marantz SR-6003 receiver comes on when I play HDCD tracks.

 

Light doesn't mean it is bit perfect. It is just 44/16 flow.

[The Computer Audiophile]

To illuminate the HDCD light and have the data not bit perfect is actually hard to accomplish. I'm willing to say it's 100% bit perfect in this circumstance.

[realhifi]

To illuminate the HDCD light and have the data not bit perfect is actually hard to accomplish. I'm willing to say it's 100% bit perfect in this circumstance.

 

I wonder if Tomlinsons fingerprints are starting to show up on some of these products?

[The Computer Audiophile]

I wonder if Tomlinsons fingerprints are starting to show up on some of these products?

 

The HDCD indicator is in the DAC, so no fingerprints there.

[HiFiInsider]

So Chris, you tested the new APE for HDCD "bit perfect" output?

[realhifi]

The HDCD indicator is in the DAC, so no fingerprints there.

 

Meant the bit perfect passing through the AE. Seeing he is actually head of Apples audio division now I'm assuming he has a bit of say on what this new piece does and doesn't do, such as being able to pass a bit perfect signal.

[wgscott]

It is taking the scenic route, either that or Apple thinks we are a lot further north than we are...

 

My shipment went from Hong Kong to Tennessee to Oakland sine I last looked: