My iMac is connected via usb to a Parasound P6 Preamplifier for enjoyment of high res Apple Music. The sound is more lifelike than any other means I have to recorded music except 5.1 SACD. My hope is to get an Apple TV and connect it to a Dolby ATMOS Receiver like one of the new Sony’s so I can...

I am going to attempt Apple Music’s Spatial Audio via Apple TV connected to my OPPO-205 in PrePro role feeding a multi-channel Sony TA-P9000ES analog preamplifier. The OPPO will decode Dolby ATMOS but since the Sony zpresmp is just 5.1 the ATMOS channels will end up coming from front channels...

I don’t use headphones and the DAC is in the P6.

These days Apple Music seems to deliver AAC and ALAC files which I cannot distinguish from SACD, so for now I am quite satisfied with Apple Music from an M1 iMAC to Parasound 2.1 Preamplifier via usb.

No doubt Apple Music via usb from iMac to Parasound 2.1 P6 sounds on par to SACD.

Yep, all of my Apple Music devices sound great but the best is from iMac M1 outputting to my Parasound P6 2.1 Preamplifier/DAC, very lifelike at any volume.

In reality you are divorced from reality, since from day one in the history of recorded music lifelike has always been the goal.

Of course, electronic music is not considerable in terms such as lifelike. I thought those on this forum would have enough intelligence to know that without need to quality it. Now, for acoustic and vocal recordings who would not want an impression of lifelike?

For streaming analog (AAC, MP3, audiobooks, Internet music streams, etc.) from a Mac to an AirPort Express base station (AX), iTunes does most of the work: iTunes decompresses those file formats and creates what's essentially a raw, uncompressed audio stream. That stream is then compressed...

What we all want from any recorded music is lifelike sound. And technology has moved on now to Apple Music Lossless and Hi-Res streaming for sound that really is lifelike when processed by a contemporary DAC. In other words, this thread is kind of meaningless for anyone routing Apple Music via...

It's been a disaster for Tidal. When claims about MQA from MQA and Tidal were disproven it discredited both entities and now since CD and Hi-Res is streamed by most services, MQA technology is no longer relevant. This means MQA is indeed dead and Tidal has been so discredited its reasonable that...

Yes MQA is dead, made obsolete since Apple Music began delivering hi-res ALAC.

O.K., so the TC28i adapter Lightning to usb-c will serve to deliver Hi-Res from my iPhone 7+ to my Parasound P6 Preamplifier's usb DAC input, is that right? I can buy this device on Amazon for about $28.

Wondering, can a Lightning to usb cable send 24/192 to an external usb DAC? Example: iPhone 7+ to Parasound P6 DAC via the cable typically used to charge an iPhone.

So, your stereo receives HDMI output?