Some quiet hirez jazz on my playlist today.

Jimmy Cobb, Jazz In The Key Of Blue, 24/192, Chesky Records(2009). https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HD0090368034465
Beautifully recorded natural sounding ballad jazz. Stressed, play this album.

Tord Gustavsen Ensemble, Restored, Returned. 24/96, ECM (2009), http://www.gubemusic.com/album_18954

Jack Wrigley at Musicgiants sent this when I asked what their HD and Super HD formats ment. (have never tested any of their material myself)

Hd is equal to 44.1 16bit  our superHD is either 88.1 or 96/24 bit
Jack Wrigley
MusicGiants

http://mgn.musicgiants.com/

Look for "Super HD"

Sorry for not writing this properly.
It should have been 48khz not 48kBps. This is usb receiver chip spec.

In reply 10 I said the following: All April Music D/A´s and Eximus CD10 can play 24/96 through the usb input.
Unforunately this is not correct, and I apologize for that.
This incorrect information is due to a communication error in an earlier discussion with April Music about this topic.

As Edward mentioned earlier, when playing 24/96 with foobar the signal are downsampeled before it is sent out the usb port.


-There is no USB chip at this time which supports 96kHz sampling.
-The USB chip can not receive more than 48kBps (this is USB specification).
-Sound card of PC/notebook does not export more than 48kBps through USB
 or SPDIF whatsoever.

All April Music DAC´s support up to 24/192 format, the output from either
transport or PC should be upsampled before reaching the DAC.
Once again, unfortunately, no sound card can shoot out 24/96 (they are
advertising but the actual output is limited) unless they are upsampled.
April Music use upsampling and specially designed jitter reduction to lift the
sonic quality up to a new level.


Best Terje

I am afraid I can not tell you why, but I get the following error messages.
When trying to play wav24/96: Wrong stream status(1)
When trying to play flac24/96: Length error in flac file. (this error message also occures when placing flac files in playlist)

I use the same drivers as pedal. These drivers are automatically used when connecting Eximus/Stello products with usb.

As Norwegian importer of April Music´s products, I am really waiting for Xxhighend to be able to play hi-rez with our products.
I dont feel ready to recommend Xxhighend to our customers before it is a complete solution with the ability to play hi-rez formats.

Best Terje

Quote from edward:

All April Music D/A´s and Eximus CD10 can play 24/96 through the usb input.
This is Stello DA100, DA100Signature, DA220MK2 and Eximus CD10.
I am actually playing 24/96 with Foobar and a DA100S at this moment, but xxhighend does not work with 24/96.

I think the reason for your misunderstanding regarding this is that the usb receiverchip used in these units also contains a lowquality built in 16 bit dac.
This built in dac is not in use in any of these units.
The signal from the usb receiver is led directly to highend dac´s from AKM or  Burr Brown (CD10), and all the units can therefor play hi-rez.