Hi,

Apple has always had "Apple Lossless Audio Codec" (ALAC) coding if you were ripping CD's into your Mac.

Otherwise it's only that the Music store has finally caught up with CD bit rates rather than the lossy encoding that was the previous norm for purchases (around 250kpbs?).

High Res usually refers to something above CD bit rates, so I'm not sure exactly what Apple has announced regarding that.

One other problem is the fact that the audio outputs (e.g. from sources like Apple TV) are at 48kHz rather than 44kHz for CD, thus messing up the audio!

Rip a CD into iTunes and see how you get on. I have plenty ALAC rips onto Sooloos and they sound just the same as my FLAC rips.

Brian

Main: G65, MD600 Sooloos, MC200 Roon Core, MS600, 210, 218, UHD722, DSP5200SE, DSP5200HCSE, M6 & DSW.2
System 2: AC200 MS200, WiiM Pro+, M6.
Other: DSP5000 (96/24v1), DSP3300.