Cebolla Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Interesting - presumably you are using Audirvana with the Amazon Fire TV as a UPnP/DLNA streamer. If so, what app containing a UPnP/DLNA renderer are you running on the Amazon Fire TV (BubbleUPnP, for example)? Also: What are you plugging the Fire TV's HDMI output into as the go between, to get optical out (eg TV, AVR, etc)? How can you be certain that you are getting up to 96kHz sample rate, especially as Amazon Fire TV devices don't support > 16bit/44.1kHz from Amazon's own Amazon Music HD streaming service even though hi-res tracks up to 24bit/192kHz are available? Are you also able to get a bit depth of 24 bits? We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us. -- Jo Cox Link to comment
Cebolla Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Da Horsey said: I can say that it produces the best sound I've had in my system. The mono blocks are the big driver there but Audirvana & the Amazon Fire make sure it gets there. I can't be certain about the 96kHz sample rate on the other end as there's no reader showing it but I do know that it supports up to the 96KHZ sample rate up to 24 bit. https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tv/device-specifications-fire-tv-stick.html Thanks for that. Yes, the Fire TV Stick 4K's spec ties up nicely with how Audirvana sends audio over the network to UPnP/DLNA streamers. Audirvana always decodes its audio file tracks by playing them via its audio engine and its the resulting audio output packaged as WAV file streams that gets sent out over the network via UPnP/DLNA - so entirely possible for the Fire TV Stick 4K to be able to play hi-res tracks streamed from Audirvana, given that it supports up to 24bit/96kHz WAV. It also explains why the Fire TV Stick 4K doesn't support Amazon Music HD's hi-res tracks - they are streamed as FLAC file tracks. Unfortunately, the 16bit/48kHz limit for FLAC means that the same would be true if the Fire TV Stick 4K were to stream Qobuz's tracks directly from its online server as they too are FLAC encoded. Da Horsey 1 We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us. -- Jo Cox Link to comment
Cebolla Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Sorry - misread support of Firestick TV Stick 4K for FLAC is up to 24bit/48kHz, so those hi-res tracks should be possible directly from Qobuz. Da Horsey 1 We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us. -- Jo Cox Link to comment
Popular Post Cebolla Posted March 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 21, 2021 @Ultrasonic, does the miniDSP SHD's Volumio allow installation of Volumio plugins containing applications that should still be able to provide Qobuz access, such as the BubbleUPnP Server or the Logitech Media Server (LMS)? Edit: Looks like at least LMS is possible to install on the SHD via the appropriate Volumio plugin, going by this thread on the miniDSP forum: https://www.minidsp.com/forum/shd-series/17077-shd-and-logitech-media-server Ultrasonic and Mark Dirac 1 1 We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us. -- Jo Cox Link to comment
Cebolla Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 No worries. It may also be worth checking to see if the installed LMS's UPnP/DLNA Bridge plugin can be enabled to use with Volumio's upmpdcli UPnP renderer (and therefore its native MPD player that's pre-configured with the SHD hardware). Would avoid any conflict and/or compatibility issues with the SHD hardware if a Squeezelite player was instead installed to be used in parallel to the existing MPD. We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us. -- Jo Cox Link to comment
Cebolla Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Didn't you actually tempt 2L into making a multichannel 'special' for you? 😕 Music in the Round #84: Multichannel MQA | Stereophile.com Quote I e-mailed 2L's Morton Lindberg about creating some multichannel MQA files (he's already released some two-channel MQA recordings), and he agreed. Both Lindberg and Jurewicz then contacted Bob Stuart, who set the wheels in motion. He took the hi-rez 5.1-channel multichannel recordings I'd requested, separated them into pairs of channels—Front Left and Right, Center and Subwoofer, Surround Left and Right—converted each pair to MQA, then recombined them into 5.1-channel FLAC files. rando 1 We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us. -- Jo Cox Link to comment
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