Recent content by Chippy_boy

Considering the small twin driver Vertex retails at £4.5k = $7,000, it's hard to disagree with that statement. Love them though I do.

Coming to this thread late, Wilson Benesch speakers (all models) are staggeringly good. Their philosophy - which is hard to argue against when you think about it - is to keep the bare minimum of electronics between the source and your ears. So in their Act and Curve models for example, the...

You are Neo in the Matrix. Somehow your brain has been twisted to believe that 2 identical streams of bits can sound different when played through a jitter-tolerant dac. Of course this is ridiculous. Patently and utterly ridiculous, false and just plain wrong. Instead of the almost...

Are you familiar with the term "facepalm". Or "double facepalm"? Good grief.

Further to my earlier post, I can confirm that XBMC is not bit perfect under any circumstances. The whole audio path in XBMC is unsuitable for reference quality lossless playback.

It can play the files mate, but the question is, what is it outputting? I just tried playing a 24/96 file through XBMC installed on my ATV, and yes indeed, it plays. But my DAC shows "44.1" whilst it's playing. The DAC doesn't display the word length so I don't know whether it's 24 bit or 16...