Lossless music and ATV

[Scarpad]

I’ve hooked a non 4k atv to a pair of powered Edifier 2000 mk3’s via an HDMI extractor. If I airplay Apple Music to it via airplay is it passing lossless? Or do I have to actually play the music from the Apple Music app on the ATV ?

 

[netnewswireuser]

I'm afraid it upsamples everything to 48khz... i.e. kinda lossless but not bit-perfect.

 

[priitv8]

For whatever unknown reason, appleTV only seems to support lossless audio up to 24/48 only.

 

[anshuvorty]

For whatever unknown reason, appleTV only seems to support lossless audio up to 24/48 only.

Maybe the ATV's DAC is not that great and can only support 24/48?

 

[netnewswireuser]

For whatever unknown reason, appleTV only seems to support lossless audio up to 24/48 only.

yep, thing is, even if you send CD audio (16/44khz) it upsamples it to 48khz... bummer.