[ST33L]

My iMac is a few years old. I followed an on-line tutorial to enable lossless, but it isn’t available under my Apple Preference. Evidently older IMacs do not have supported hardware. Perhaps the M1 chip is required. Anyone have any insight on this matter?

 

[Andrew_WOT]

Yeah, but Android (on most phones) will upsample it.

Not with UAPP.

 

[dudeX]

My iMac is a few years old. I followed an on-line tutorial to enable lossless, but it isn’t available under my Apple Preference. Evidently older IMacs do not have supported hardware. Perhaps the M1 chip is required. Anyone have any insight on this matter?

Are you on Catalina?

 

[imackler]

Not with UAPP.

Apple Music works on UAPP?!

 

[Andrew_WOT]

Apple Music works on UAPP?!

Tidal and Qobuz do, probably not Apple, never tried it.

 

[Ab10]

Apple must offer the similar external DAC detection feature like Tidal native Android app (only detect MQA enable DAC) - but I highly doubt Apple will ever implement this feature for Android, Instead they likely sale their own hardware (iDevice).

Same goes for UAPP - Apple will never support this app as fork.

 

[rlw6534]

My iMac is a few years old. I followed an on-line tutorial to enable lossless, but it isn’t available under my Apple Preference. Evidently older IMacs do not have supported hardware. Perhaps the M1 chip is required. Anyone have any insight on this matter?

The built-in Audio Midi Setup app will tell you what audio your Mac supports, for my MacBook Pro (non M1) it goes up to 32/96.

 

[rlw6534]

Yeah, but Android (on most phones) will upsample it.

Depends on the device. Most recent Android DAPs work correctly with Apple Music without resampling.

 

[innocentblood]

Depends on the device. Most recent Android DAPs work correctly with Apple Music without resampling.

Yes an example would be AK SP2000.

 

[jmtocali]

Nvidia Shield also pass bit perfect audio for Apple Music over HDMI

 

[Luis Mad]

Yes an example would be AK SP2000.

Also AK SR25 delivering bit perfect Apple Music hires in the digital out up to 24/192

 

[gregorio]

What difference does it make when all the recordings you listen to have already been resampled, often multiple times and it's going to be resampled by pretty much every DAC any way?

G

 

[Andrew_WOT]

Android devices with decent internal DAC (most DAPs, LG V30, etc) can do bit perfect. The problem is getting it bit perfect to external DAC, USB without UAPP is resampled to 24/48, BT LDAC 990 can do 16/44.1 lossless (oversampled to 24/96 by default) but starts compressing at bitrate higher than that.

 

[gregorio]

Android devices with decent internal DAC (most DAPs, LG V30, etc) can do bit perfect.

No, they re-sample, including the LG V30.

G

 

[Andrew_WOT]

No, they re-sample, including the LG V30.

G

To internal DAC when Hi-Fi DAC is activated? I don't think so.