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On the 518 - I was one of those concerned about bit-depth, and the answer that they're picking it up from the SPDIF stream is the best possible answer. Now your 24 bit wavs from your media server shouldn't get reduced down to a dithered 16 bit just because you had to set your source as such. John - how sure are you about this?
I've read the specs for the SPDIF bitstream and its contents; it's publically available information. By spec, SPDIF was originally defined out as a 20-bit carrier and bits 4-7 (auxiliary data) are used to get to 24-bits when it's 24-bit data.


Cheers,

Surround Music Fan/Computer Geek/Curmudgeon in training.
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