jdjaye Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 In my Philly apt for the work week I have a Yamaha RN-303 with a Marantz Cd Player and Focal 716 speakers - I also have a Gen 1 Amazon Fire TV box. The Yamaha has integrated pandora and Spotify but alas no Amazon music app. WRT the Amazon music Ultra HD= hi res- I have 2 data points to share in case they are helpful to someone in the forum: Content that Amazon says is 24/196 is transmitted via toslink from the fireTV to the Yamaha at 16/44. The same content transmitted via airplay from an iPad using the Amazon music IOS app to the Yamaha plays at 16/44. 16/44 still sounds pretty good, to me, though it seems to drain the batter of my iPad about 4X. The Computer Audiophile 1 Best Stereo System: Wired Sonos Connect -> AQ Cinammon Digital Coax -> Marantz SA-8005 -> AA Black Momba 2 interconnects -> Marantz PM-15S2 -> Kimber 8TC speaker Cables -> Zu Soul Superfly speakers. Ingest> NAS> Distribution: Sony Vaio Laptop ripping via ITunes to Apple Lossless, manually synced to WD Mycloud NAS, Linksys 1900AC Router, Netgear Gig E switch, generic Ethernet cables, TPLinc ethernet power line extenders. Link to comment
jdjaye Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 18 hours ago, jdjaye said: In my Philly apt for the work week I have a Yamaha RN-303 with a Marantz Cd Player and Focal 716 speakers - I also have a Gen 1 Amazon Fire TV box. The Yamaha has integrated pandora and Spotify but alas no Amazon music app. WRT the Amazon music Ultra HD= hi res- I have 2 data points to share in case they are helpful to someone in the forum: Content that Amazon says is 24/196 is transmitted via toslink from the fireTV to the Yamaha at 16/44. The same content transmitted via airplay from an iPad using the Amazon music IOS app to the Yamaha plays at 16/44. 16/44 still sounds pretty good, to me, though it seems to drain the batter of my iPad about 4X. Also - from my ipad (2018), either from the internal speakers or the 3.5 mm headphone jack, the same 24/192 track is reported as playing out at 24/48 Best Stereo System: Wired Sonos Connect -> AQ Cinammon Digital Coax -> Marantz SA-8005 -> AA Black Momba 2 interconnects -> Marantz PM-15S2 -> Kimber 8TC speaker Cables -> Zu Soul Superfly speakers. Ingest> NAS> Distribution: Sony Vaio Laptop ripping via ITunes to Apple Lossless, manually synced to WD Mycloud NAS, Linksys 1900AC Router, Netgear Gig E switch, generic Ethernet cables, TPLinc ethernet power line extenders. Link to comment
Popular Post jdjaye Posted October 18, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2019 7 hours ago, Graham Luke said: Folks shouldn't get upset over 16 bit as opposed to 24; there's nothing extra there that you can hear anyhoo... I respectfully disagree— but let’s discuss why in a different forum topic please. I don’t want to derail the main thread here which is: “what is the scope and quality of the new Amazon Music HD service and to integrate it into people’s audio systems.” And I’ll ask the folks want to discuss the value and cost and their judgements of Amazon as a corporate entity to also discuss that in another topic in the forums. Folks please let’s keep this topic, on topic- it provides valuable objective information to those who are using or considering using Amazon Music HD. UELong and crenca 2 Best Stereo System: Wired Sonos Connect -> AQ Cinammon Digital Coax -> Marantz SA-8005 -> AA Black Momba 2 interconnects -> Marantz PM-15S2 -> Kimber 8TC speaker Cables -> Zu Soul Superfly speakers. Ingest> NAS> Distribution: Sony Vaio Laptop ripping via ITunes to Apple Lossless, manually synced to WD Mycloud NAS, Linksys 1900AC Router, Netgear Gig E switch, generic Ethernet cables, TPLinc ethernet power line extenders. Link to comment
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