Feb 10, 2025 · Other lossless audio file formats include ALAC (Apple Lossless) and WMA Lossless (Windows Media Audio). The former is a good iOS and Apple Music-compatible alternative to FLAC, …

Oct 17, 2025 · Want to dig deeper? Here are all the audio file formats explained in greater detail. What’s so good about hi-res audio? You only need add speakers to Naim's Uniti Atom streaming amplifier, …

Mar 21, 2020 · PCM is the originally recorded digital audio (pulse coded modulation) - all A/V audio is PCM to start with, and all A/V audio will end up as PCM before hitting the DAC. Dolby Digital is …

Feb 11, 2025 · It was designed to be a simpler, more space-efficient way of storing digital music data than PCM. Importantly, DSD was also designed to be easy to convert to PCM files with sampling …

Jul 9, 2018 · Am I right in thinking in that case that there needs to be an ARC enabled HDMI port on either end of the signal chain - i.e. output on the TV and input on an audio receiver? PCM - pulse …

Dec 16, 2009 · My understanding is that passthrough is the best setting to have as this means the sound is not processed by the tv and is instead sent straight the receiver. However, on the passthrough or …

Oct 29, 2020 · Does it matter which an AV processor receives? I have an Apple TV 4k v1, and when using VLC to play back my library from a NAS, instead of bitstreaming the Dolby and DTS audio …

Apr 27, 2008 · HDMI - A PCM track can be transmitted in full quality over any version of HDMI and delivered to the receiver for D-to-A conversion and amplification. Multi-channel analog - In this case, …

Jul 2, 2020 · PCM is the more lower latency audio format and LG systems are notorious for audio lag so sticking to PCM is beneficial in that area, some sound system may apply audio processing to Dolby …

Jan 9, 2017 · When I choose PCM, I see that only the front two speakers (so therefor 2.1 audio) are the only speakers active when I choose STRAIGHT on the yamaha receiver. I'm continuously reading …