Can digital audio playback be improved by resolutions greater than 16/44.1?

Given the era that record was recorded, I would be surprised if the original masters had the range to even fully utilize CD audio.
The 2008 remaster is pretty respectable. Nice clarity and soundstage, though presumably some of the HF on the percussion is forever lost.

Does the legendary wapping high thread need to be a sticky?! So we can just point the next person that chugs along with the same claims to the beginning of that discussion?!

I miss ol wapping. Never has there been a better combination of righteous indignation matched with an equal level of cluelessness. The time he broke down and conceded to follow our instructions on how to configure his NAS and, even after it worked, he still claimed it was Sonos to blame and not his network was comedy gold.

Never has there been a better combination of righteous indignation matched with an equal level of cluelessness.
LOL!!! I must have missed those events; I joined that 2007(?) thread late in the day, in 2011. It still had legs then though.

LOL!!! I must have missed those events; I joined that 2007(?) thread late in the day, in 2011. It still had legs then though.

That was during his "Sonos should make me a router/NAS" phase. He could never seem to get the share on his Mac to work, and blamed Sonos instead of the well publicized and notoriously unreliable MacOS SMB implementation. Kept pleading with Sonos to cure his network woes by putting out Sonos branded routers and storage devices.

putting out Sonos branded routers and storage devices.
Erm...I have to confess to some posts on those lines myself in my early days here:)

Nothing of note to add to the discussion, other than the great music being discussed. Probably my favourite album of all time, certainly up there in my top 3. Most versions of the songs were better live and took on a life of their own. Seeing Steve Hackett again in a couple of months. 🙂 Nice Youtube link. 🙂

"Hi-res DD5.1" is pretty much an oxymoron. The maximum bitrate for DD/AC-3 is 640kbps. And that's for six channels (albeit the LFE is band-limited).

Indeed you are right, and thanks for pointing that out. I noted in a later post that the disc was actually DTS5.1, and I had to transcode it using a Playstation to feed the Playbar. So none of the original hi-res audio (it's 24/96) will make it through, and even if it did, the Sonos system would presumably refuse to play it.

The point of my story was not about hi-res, it was about the clear and positive effect of Trueplay tuning on a Sonos 5.1 setup. We also watched Dr Strange the other night with similar excellent 5.1 sound.

Off topic, if you want a treat, check this guy out: https://youtu.be/-V7Dqf-FQL4

Thanks for the link - quite a talent!

Returning the favor, check out Another One, a song by Project RnL from Israel. The bass solo at the end is extraordinary.

So none of the original hi-res audio (it's 24/96) will make it through, and even if it did, the Sonos system would presumably refuse to play it.

I have tried playing 24/96 ALAC through my CONNECT:AMP to see what would happen. The result was just white noise.

It sounded FANTASTIC, though. 😉

Another excellent digest/commentary from Archimago: http://archimago.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/musings-do-we-need-those-20khz.html