Apple Music - Now losslesss and Hires - 3 Months free trial available.
As above:
For myself,
As a Tidal/Qobuz subscriber I never really paid much attention to Apple Music?
Getting more into the Apple Ecosystem nowadays, IPads and now an Apple TV 4K is on the way.
My PS5 doesn’t do Dolby Vision, and I miss it on my OLED TV,
so with Apple Music going lossless, decided to take a punt on an Apple TV, stream lossless and hires to my Dac via the Oppo HDMI input.
Curious to see how it performs against the PS5 for Music too, especially with lossless.
3 Months free trial of Apple Music, thought I’d give it a punt.
PS5 doesn’t output lossless from Apple Music over HDMI, but the Apple TV DOES.
New gadget,
what’s not to enjoy.
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
MUSIC PLAYBACK
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables