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HC-800 & High Res Audio


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Depends on the simultaneous number of feeds with a 250 or 800 but likely it is 96/24. If there are legacy controllers or speaker points in the project not allowing advanced audio the delay for encoding is longer but I don't believe quality is really lowered. Need to go EA and get rid of hc200/300/500 and streaming speaker points to get 192kHz/24-bit throughout

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On 15/09/2017 at 2:14 AM, thegreatheed said:

Streaming audio is not high-res. There are no supported streaming services that stream at better than CD-quality audio (and very few that even exist overall). The HC800 will stream audio just fine-it will stream multiple feeds just fine.

The thing that you miss from an EA controller is a better signal-to-noise ratio in regards to converting the audio. You might actually hear that in your setup because with the new 8-zone amp and the R28s, you have high SNRs on those products.

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Great Diagram!!! Nice one. 

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How does all the above apply to Amazon HD lossless music 
Holy necro thread batman.

Based on the below. It's right there next to Tidal and CD s with bottom of the FLAC bands as streaming quality level.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20869526/amazon-music-hd-lossless-flac-tier-spotify-apple

Amazon says it has a catalog of over 50 million songs that it calls “High Definition,” which is the term it’s applying to songs with CD-quality bit depth of 16 bits and a 44.1kHz sample rate. It also has “millions” (read: less than 10 million, more than one million) of songs it’s calling “Ultra HD,” which translates to 24-bit with sample rates that range from 44.1kHz up to 192kHz. Amazon Music HD will deliver them all in the lossless FLAC file format, instead of the MQA format that Tidal uses.

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17 minutes ago, zaphod said:

Does anyone know where Amaon HD, UHD and "3D" fit into this diagram?

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Amazon HD states it CD quality and UHD appears to be up to 24/192 (which is a bit rate of 3730).  Apparently 3D is a surround format so multichannel.  It's hard to tell 100% what they are doing on the 3D but the purist in me tends to stay away from any type of processed or enhanced music.

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