but its digital out was constrained to 24/48 (which amazon would vaguely claim that it, like the echo studio, supported UHD without saying , yes it did, but at the lowest level, glossing over 24/96 and 24/192 support.
I saw this. It mentions nowhere it's only 24/48 due to the constraints on the outputs. Taking the mick just a bit.
but (referring back to its Alexa Heos skill, which is analogous to MusicCast) when casting to it from the amazon music app, all my amp showed was 24/48.
At least it says something. All you get using Alexa Cast via MusicCast is it saying "Digital" in the app and on-screen.
However, my amp shows an incoming pcm stream as that when I was casting a lossy mp3 file too, so the consensus was that was all that the Heos skill was playing when casting from the amazon music app. This opinion was agreed with others in a similar setup.
Thanks. It sounds like enough testing was done to come to a conclusion. Sometimes that's all you get.
Aside from the lack of concrete info from Amazon, it’s pointless trying to ask their front line support about it as frankly they’re generally pretty abysmal and wouldn’t have a clue about what was being asked, although if you’re lucky you might get one that could at least refer you to help pages that you had already read (and told them so).
Agreed. They're not trained to understand it, just read off support articles. Often the same ones they provide to the public anyway.
In some respects, Apple are no better with their hi res offering, being rather opaque about how you can best play that on non apple kit. It’s as if the big players want to talk up their hi res offerings but go out of their way to prevent you from fully exploiting them…
I've gleaned Amazon and Apple offer High Res because A: There's a market for it B: It looks good in marketing material.
But they know 24/192 is complicated even over a wire. They're intentionally vague as it's hoped many will assume they're getting 24/96 or 24/192 when they're not. The difference between all these audio levels can sometimes be subtle.
And most of their users will be using the wired headphones that used to come in the box, a bluetooth speaker or more expensive bluetooth earbuds like AirPods. None of which support High Res let alone able to pick up the difference in nuance anyway.
The fact Apple, Amazon and Google don't sell any device that supports 24/192 and I don't "think" Google have ever officially stated any Chromecast supports 24/96 except for the Chromecast Audio.
As far I can tell. there are no ways to listen to Apple Music's High Res audio wirelessly.
Thanks for the extra info btw. I had suspected Alexa Cast via MusicCast was resampling to at beat 24/48. I didn't play with it enough to try and discern if it was Lossy or Lossless. It could equally be either.
The MusiCast app is quite poor, so although it gives you bit perfect audio it's not a fun way to do this. I wasn't expecting the Wiim app to actually be decent.
