Sound quality comparison

[simoncn]

(29-08-2014 13:20)krutsch Wrote:  Count me in, I am happy to help. The use case that would fit my purposes:

1. WAV24 output for dedicated streamers (I can't believe there are dedicated streamer appliances that can't play 24-bit WAV - my AVRs and my 1st-gen Denon streamer can't play ALAC or AIFF, but they can do WAV);

2. Android/Mobile use - I really don't want to stream WAV24 to handhelds (e.g. Android phones), as most of them cannot play 24-bit audio without truncation; and, who wants to send high bit-depth audio over the Internet?

That last case might be a challenge; on the local network, I can go direct to MinimServer. But over the Internet, I am proxying with BubbleUPnP Server, which has a transcoding switch, but no ability to discern its use.

I will be curious to read about use cases from other users.

Thanks for all you do.

Ignoring the internet aspect for the moment, this use case could present a challenge for the UPnP scheme. For example, if you enable wav24 and mp3 streams (listed in that order), your dedicated streamers will play the wav24 stream (as desired) but any Android device that claims support for WAV will be told by the control point to play the wav24 stream.

An ideal solution would be for the control point to provide a user setting for fine-grained control over which of the available streams should be played on which renderer devices.