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The best way to stream hi-res audio from Apple Music
网页2021年6月10日 · The best way is the only way. In my previous post on hi-res audio on Apple Music, I detailed how Apple’s ‘hi-res lossless’ content – 24bit/96kHz or 24bit/192kHz streams – are often downsampled or resampled by the playback hardware, often unbeknownst to the end-user and thus negating the benefits of streaming a hi-res file. To recap briefly: AirPlay and Apple TV OS are limited to ...
Second opinion: Cambridge DacMagic 200M - Darko.Audio
网页2021年6月22日 · The Cambridge Audio DacMagic 200M is feature-rich, checking most boxes on today’s DAC to-do list: MQA, PCM resolutions up to 32-bit/768kHz (!), DSD256, Bluetooth (AptX), plus balanced and unbalanced outputs; a headphone output adds the final check. And the DacMagic 200M stuffs all of this stuff into a …
Bluesound teases Dirac-ready NODE Icon, 2024 NODE + NODE …
网页2024年8月20日 · My contact at Bluesound confirmed that the Dirac-adjusted signal can be pulled from the NODE and the NODE Icon in the analogue and digital domains. BYO Dirac Live licence and room measurement microphone. The 2024 NODE will sell for US$529 / €599 and the NODE Icon for US$999 / €1099. The NODE Nano is available from today for US$299 / €349.
LosslessSwitcher adds bit-perfect Apple Music playback to MacOS
网页2022年4月29日 · Vincent Neo’s LosslessSwitcher app “switches your current audio device’s sample rate to match the currently playing a lossless song on your Apple Music app, automatically.”. Once installed and running, the app runs in the menu bar at the top of the screen, next to the clock. Lossless Switcher reads the sample rate of the incoming Apple ...
Tidal is quietly rolling out a bit-perfect Android app
网页2021年7月5日 · The Norwegian-based streaming service has begun rolling out an update to its Android app that allows it to communicate bit-perfectly with any connected USB DAC, thus sidestepping the host OS’s resampling code. We know this because “Allow Tidal to access HELM MQA?” pops up on this commentator’s LG V40 (RIP) when the …
LAiV Harmony DAC review | Darko.Audio
网页2024年4月26日 · Laiv’s published road map already includes a pre/headamp, external power supply, screen-enabled server and GaNFet monos. First up is the Harmony DAC which previews a half-width chassis one rack space tall. It’s styled to the T’ai Chi. There’s an informative 3.8” diagonal grey-scale display of 320 x 132px. In Darko Speak we spy ...
DACs 101 - Darko.Audio
网页2020年6月18日 · That same DAC also converts digital call data arriving at the phone over Wifi or 4G into an analogue voice that we hear via the same tiny amplifier and loudspeaker set. We’ve gone back to basics. DAC = d igital to a nalogue c onverter. A DAC sits behind every smartphone’s 3.5mm socket or the supplied dongle that helps it do without. If we ...
Raspberry Pi audio streaming 101 - Darko.Audio
网页2020年1月30日 · Raspberry Pi audio streaming 101. by John Darko January 30, 2020, 14:14. IT 101. An Apple Macbook or Windows-based PC is made up of two fundamentals: the hardware; and the software that runs on the hardware. We can see the hardware if we pop the lid and take a peek inside: the CPU, the RAM, the storage (SSD or HDD) and the inputs/outputs (I/O).
Hegel elevates H90 integrated amplifier to H95 - Darko.Audio
网页2020年8月17日 · The latest streaming integrated to spill from Norway’s Hegel is the H95 — an update to the outgoing H90. Unlike the H90, the H95’s internal network streamer will support UPnP, Spotify Connect (Premium and free tiers) plus the original Apple AirPlay. A future firmware update will add AirPlay 2 support but, crucially, not Control 4 compatibility or the Roon Readiness that will eventually ...