HDCD CDs and transcoding

[simoncn]

All this makes sense except for one thing. I would expect that the combination of sending an unmodified HDCD-encoded L16;44 stream and enabling HDCD decoding in the BDP-83 would result in correctly decoded HDCD audio from the player.

Is the input WAV file also 16/44 and an exact copy of the original CD audio data? If so, I wonder whether the BDP-83 does not apply HDCD decoding to data streamed across the network.