HDCD CDs and transcoding

[vkshankar]

(24-02-2021 09:52)simoncn Wrote:  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.

It is my belief that HDCD encoding is not preserved in the wav:L16 conversion by fb2k. I will check this once more.