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Fellow Qobuzers - strange incoming

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Posted on June 8, 2017 at 15:54:49
PAR
 Do you have a DAC that displays incoming bit depth as well as frequency? The latter is common but not all DACS provide the former.

I am getting a strange format with what the Qobuz desktop app indicates are 16/44.1 streams. My DAC identifies them as incoming 17/44.1 ! Yes I have been through all of the usual checks e.g.cables, rebooting the DAC, Qobuz app etc.

I have checked incoming 16/44.1 streams from other sources and they are all displayed as 16/44.1. It is only Qobuz.

Are you seeing anything similar?

 

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RE: Fellow Qobuzers - strange incoming, posted on June 8, 2017 at 17:23:06
ahendler
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 These are metric bits
Alan

 

Sadly, my only DAC with a digital display of the stream..., posted on June 8, 2017 at 20:40:35
Ivan303
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 lists sampling rate and not bit depth. :-(






First they came for the dumb-asses
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a dumb-ass

 

RE: Fellow Qobuzers - strange incoming, posted on June 9, 2017 at 00:20:59
PAR
 :-)

 

nothing similar ..., posted on June 9, 2017 at 13:20:58
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 works correctly all the time.

 

yes, actually my DAC is silent on bit depth too, posted on June 9, 2017 at 13:23:13
maxim
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 but why should I bother if it sounds good?

 

RE: yes, actually my DAC is silent on bit depth too, posted on June 9, 2017 at 16:46:47
PAR
 " but why should I bother if it sounds good?"

No reason at all unless you are worried that it isn't working correctly or just have an enquiring mind.

Taking the latter as my starting point I have now tried a completely different computer source running another copy of the Qobuz desktop app with a different version of Windows 10. I still get 17 not 16 bits.

So I am wondering if this is a side effect of ABS (adaptive bit streaming) when accessing bit rates lower than the maximum given that there is probably a common output format for all streams, rather like UHF B&W and colour TV once had (i.e. the difference was made at the receiver not transmission end). Could this apparently non-standard format be the result? NB: the 17 bit word length only occured after a recent upgrade to the app promulgated by Qobuz.

Any experts on ABS out there?

 

RE: Fellow Qobuzers - strange incoming, posted on June 11, 2017 at 09:16:57
bean
 have you been streaming Spinal Tap?

 

RE: Fellow Qobuzers - strange incoming, posted on June 11, 2017 at 15:26:19
PAR
 :-)

 

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