Article: Apple Music Lossless, High Resolution, and Dolby Atmos Announced

[BrownMagic]

This is great news! And it must sending some shivers to the competition. 
 

What I an eager is to know how do we stream in high res to our dac? 
 

Airplay 2 is not the answer since it not lossless and it goes through the device hence draining battery.  So is Airplat 3 in the works? Are we getting an Apple Connect?

[BrownMagic]

Well I would like to ensure that I am able to get the highest resolution possible with the least boxes but that doesn’t mean we are any less of any audiophile. In fact Roon and HQP don’t matter to me at all. There is a a big demand for something like Spotify connect that can do the highest res possible and I fall into that category. The app developed by an apple or a Spotify Will any day be more robust than what a 3rd party like Roon can make so we prefer. I guess that’s why we have many services for each of us. 

[BrownMagic]

@wklie what is Lumin's view on Apple music? Is it something you see your products working with?

[BrownMagic]

1 hour ago, wklie said:

We are full speed ahead on adding support for Spotify HiFi though.

This is good news. Based on Spotify announcement, we can continue to use Spotify connect to stream hires to devices like lumin which support Spotify connect. Is that right? 

[BrownMagic]

According to Apple, AppleTV and the HomePods will get lossless support with a future software update. Since the HomePod doesn’t have Ethernet, my guess would be Airplay 3 is on its way.