1/18/2023 0 Comments Bitperfect itunesThis is rather ridiculous as the majority of music is in 44kHz. However, the Apple TV resamples EVERY audio stream to 48kHz. People want to be able to play music over the network and the Apple TV is the best product Apple provides that enables you to do that. Apple TV resamples all audio to 16 bits/ 48 kHz.In addition Airplay is limited to 16 bits/44 kHz, there is no option for high bitrate audio such as 24/96 even though there is no technical reason why this isn’t possible. Again this is because there is no way to transmit bitperfect signals. In hi-fi circles Airplay is regarded as one of the poorest quality methods of transmitting audio. This is a clear indication that Apple doesn’t care about the quality of audio playback. iTunes does not provide an ability to play the sound unmodified, hence the popularity of playback software such as Bitperfect and Audirvana. When a song is played in iTunes the bits that hit the DAC are not the bits in the song. Extra storage would be required by the end-user, and I would be happy for this feature to be a hidden switch which could be enabled by those who care about quality music. In fact it could be argued that it is easier to provide uncompressed music rather than compressed music. There is no reason why lossless CD quality music can’t be provided. CDs became popular in the 1980s, however since the boom in digital music we have put up with inferior compressed music. iTunes doesn’t provide CD quality music.However, in the last 12 months I no longer use iTunes and here is why: For many years I used iTunes because of its ease of use in song discovery, purchase, and playback. Apple has been a leader in audio on Macs for as long as I can remember focusing on high quality sound reproduction. I’ve been an avid user of Apple since 1993.
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