![]() ![]() People want to be able to play music over the network and the Apple TV is the best product Apple provides that enables you to do that. Apple TV resamples all audio to 16 bits/ 48 kHz.In addition Airplay is limited to 16 bits/44 kHz, there is no option for high bitrate audio such as 24/96 even though there is no technical reason why this isn’t possible. Again this is because there is no way to transmit bitperfect signals. In hi-fi circles Airplay is regarded as one of the poorest quality methods of transmitting audio. This is a clear indication that Apple doesn’t care about the quality of audio playback. iTunes does not provide an ability to play the sound unmodified, hence the popularity of playback software such as Bitperfect and Audirvana. When a song is played in iTunes the bits that hit the DAC are not the bits in the song. Extra storage would be required by the end-user, and I would be happy for this feature to be a hidden switch which could be enabled by those who care about quality music. In fact it could be argued that it is easier to provide uncompressed music rather than compressed music. There is no reason why lossless CD quality music can’t be provided. CDs became popular in the 1980s, however since the boom in digital music we have put up with inferior compressed music. iTunes doesn’t provide CD quality music.However, in the last 12 months I no longer use iTunes and here is why: For many years I used iTunes because of its ease of use in song discovery, purchase, and playback. Apple has been a leader in audio on Macs for as long as I can remember focusing on high quality sound reproduction. The author wrote this software because he was annoyed that some other companies were charing hundreds and in some cases thousands of dollars for this same functionality.I’ve been an avid user of Apple since 1993. Better upsampling and digital volume control (although you will always be messing with the bits doing that). Playback of DSD audio files on a DSD-capable DAC.Ĥ. I'm not so convinced, but it doesn't hurt.ģ. Some people believe pre-loading part or all of the track into the memory buffer improves playback. If all you have are mp3 or AAC compressed audio, you aren't going to be able to hear any difference.Ģ. Those who will really benefit from this will generally have a collection including lossless higher-resolution files. If you are using Airplay exclusively, this isn't for you, since everything gets resampled to 44.1 kHz anyway (and if you use Apple TV, gets resampled a second time to 48 kHz). This takes care of the problem automatically. You have to repeat the process each time you play a track with a different sampling frequency, or else your music will get re-sampled. Everything else will get resampled, unless you quit iTunes, change Audio MIDI setup to the new sample frequency manually, and then restart iTunes. If your iTunes library contains tracks that have various sampling frequencies (normal CDs and most iTunes store tracks are 44.1 kHz sampled, "higher resolution" can be 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz or even higher), iTunes will only be able to play one of these bit-perfectly, depending on the settings in Audio MIDI setup. What does this give you that iTunes does not?ġ. It gives you almost all of the advantages of iTunes (since it runs as a parasite on the iTunes interface), but enables you to avoid some of the limitations inherent to iTunes. Other than that, it is not audiophile, so stop wasting your money on something that cannot be. In other words, forget audiophile, unless you are young, still have good hearing, and have a lot of expendable cash lying around for top equipment starting with output devices and following back to the source. mediocre headphones or speakers on the end of high end amps and players will not reproduce audiophile quality sound. If you really want audiophile and can hear it, that is where your money should go first. If you don't have that, nothing else matters as that is what your ears actually hear. Finally you have to own speakers or headphones that are capable of audiophile playback ranges with minimal distortion. Any other claims for recording or equipment is marketing hype. ![]() If you are over 50 forget audiophile due to hearing age degradation-i.e you can't hear it anyway. lossless audio format from the source., which is not anything on iTunes or MP3. Anything else is compressed and sampled, unless it is stated to be audiophile quality on the source-i.e. Is this a joke? For Audiofile level recordings you need analog standard (not cassette) tape or vinyl. ![]()
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