WDTV Sound Quality playing FLAC music files?

  1. How is WDTV sound quality playing stereo FLAC music files?

Are using the analog, optical toslink or hdmi output?

  1. How you configure “Setup → audio/video output → Audio Output” ?

a) Stereo

b) Digital Pass-Through via optical only

c) Digital Pass-Through via HDMI only

Note:

I select b) for toslik optical output, connected to a 5.1 receiver.

  1. Is the toslink (optical) output bit perfect when playing some or all of these sample rates?

Does it resample some of them?

16bit - 44.1 Khz (standard CD sample rate)

24bit - 44.1 Khz

24bit - 88.2 Khz

24bit - 96 Khz

24bit - 176.4 Khz

24bit - 192 Khz

Note:

Bit perfetct means:

The digital output from WDTV is  the same (bit by bit) as the digital signal stored in the audio file.

The signal is unaltered passthrough and is not processed in any way by WDTV.

No resample, no volume change, no equalization, no nothing, just the original unaltered audio.

  1. Same questions as 3), but now for HDMI output.

I dont have a HDMI receiver input, but maybe others are interested in this.

  1. We need some way to browse/select music files with TV Off.

Using IOS/Android phones and tablets would be perfect.

Please consider voting this ideia: Full Web interface

I’ve found this great article from “Archimago’s Musings” that measures WDTV Live SMP sound quality.

It answers some of the questions asked in the previous post.

MEASUREMENTS: WD TV Live - A look at (and listen to) the digital “low end”.

Please consider voting SkyWalker666 ideia to support Bit-perfect optical FLAC playback at all sample rates:

WD TV Live FLAC 88.2, 96, 192 kHz Optical Sample Rates

Mr-Wolf wrote:

I’ve found this great article from “Archimago’s Musings” that measures WDTV Live SMP sound quality.

It answers some of the questions asked in the previous post.

MEASUREMENTS: WD TV Live - A look at (and listen to) the digital “low end”.

 

@Mr-Wolf, thanks for the link to the excellent article above. Really great information and a very interesting read.

-P

I rip to FLAC and store to a NAS. I have also purchased and stored 24 / 96 files on the same device.

I connect the WD TV to my AVR using HDMI. Sound quality is excellent. I use the pass through via HDMI.

I think 192K files also work - seems like I have one album in that format as well.