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I was wondering : i can connect my Synology NAS trough the BV-11 Homemedia. I am playing high res audio files like FLAC and WAV.
But what if I select the files from my Ipad with the Synology app Audiostation and play them trough DLNA on the BV-11. Is there a loss of quality or are the files both ways played exactly the same ?
I am not quite sure that I have understood, what you mean.
If you mean, if there is a difference when you play the same files through the interface on the BV11 or you stream it - with the app as a controller - to be rendered by the BV11, there should be no difference.
Have you noticed any difference?
MM
There is a tv - and there is a BV
Yes, I mean if there is a quality difference if a high resolution flac file is being played directly trough Home Media on the BV-11 or if it's done trough the AudioStation and if the output BV-11 is selected.
Maybe there is some conversion when played through the AudioStation app and there is loss of quality...
The AudioStation app is just a remote - when using DLNA.
I suppose you don't AirPlay it from there - or use the AirPlay function of the DSM - to an ATV ?/!
P.S. Do you 'mean if there are differences' or do you actually 'hear differences'?
No, don't use airplay. Use DLNA. I just started with playing high resolution files, so a bit in the middle of discovering and trying to hear the differences. But it was more in this stage a question that popped up if for example the Audiostation would use some kind of conversion and would make the (flac) file like a mp3 file.... I thought I read somewhere that for example AirPlay could not give the (max) output as DLNA. I am just trying to get the best possible solution.
As far as I know the Synology software doesn't downconvert anything unless you have told it to.
The AirPlay protocol is 16//44.1(48.0) regardless if source is lower or higher.