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In the CE Week 2014 a couple of weeks ago Sharp presented, what they claim to be 'the worlds first high resolution audio player'.
It is a combined player for Blu Ray's, SACD's, networked audio etc and transmits the sound via WiSA.
http://www.sharpusa.com/ForHome/HomeEntertainment/Audio/wisa.aspx
Lo and behold - the player will be avaible in september this year.
BUT WE KNOW BETTER - some of us even use that feature in our daily life without boasting much about it.
Every BV11/Avant can do these things already (if you include a good BRP for the optical media) - the V1/BV12NG/BSys4 with the Transmitter.
Some of us have the OPPO player to do the disc's, and the built-in Media Player/Renderer can play the networked files easily.
Once again our friends in Struer are way ahead of the rest of the A/V-world.
The guys from the big companies just don't seem to notice that!
I wonder which loudspeakers Onkyo are going to suggest for their 'worlds first...'
MM
There is a tv - and there is a BV
I don't think that that is the problem - especially not in the last year or two.
They seem to have been neglected - or rather not understood - from the so-called A/V experts.
Hopefully that will change.
Millemissen:Every BV11/Avant can do these things already (if you include a good BRP for the optical media)
And there we have it, B&O can't actually do all hi-res audio formats, it needs someone else's player to provide a pcm stream and so it is a stretch to call it a "high resolution audio player", maybe Sharp are right after all!!
Ban boring signatures!
Beosound Stage, Beovision 8-40, Beolit 20, Beosound Explore.
Puncher: And there we have it, B&O can't actually do all hi-res audio formats, it needs someone else's player to provide a pcm stream and so it is a stretch to call it a "high resolution audio player", maybe Sharp are right after all!!
As we know a lot of people don't care for the optical media anymore.
With the B&O product you have the choice, if you want to transfer sound from them too (by adding a player) - with the Sharp product you have to buy the whole package.
Whether you decode 'here' or 'there' doesn't matter.
Besides - for the Sharp player to work you need to add a monitor/a tv - so maybe Sharp aren't right after all!
Just another way of seeing this.
In general I would rather not compare these two products.
The Sharp looks a great product to me.
If it wasn't for the pricetag, it could be a competitor for the OPPO (no need for WiSA support then)?
What was interesting, is that the Sharp WISA player will be on sale september this year - B&O have had support for WiSA a year by then.
Puncher:And there we have it, B&O can't actually do all hi-res audio formats, it needs someone else's player to provide a pcm stream and so it is a stretch to call it a "high resolution audio player", maybe Sharp are right after all!! Ban boring signatures!
Barry Santini: Puncher: And there we have it, B&O can't actually do all hi-res audio formats, it needs someone else's player to provide a pcm stream and so it is a stretch to call it a "high resolution audio player", maybe Sharp are right after all!! Geez, why does anyone think they really need greater than 96khz/24 bit. If you've completely vetted your listening room's power and frequency response, maybe. If not, waste of money. B
Geez, why does anyone think they really need greater than 96khz/24 bit. If you've completely vetted your listening room's power and frequency response, maybe. If not, waste of money.
B
My comment wasn't about whether it's needed, just whether it can or can not.
There was an interesting commentary in Sound and Vision magazine about the necessity and effectiveness of high resolution music. It was also nice that the author mentioned one of my favorite bands.
Read it here:
http://www.soundandvision.com/content/beware-spinal-tap-syndrome
D
What was discussed in that article was not the music, but the equipment.
"'Enter the new generation of audio players that are spec’d at 32-bit quantization, and 384-kHz sampling frequency."
Another - surely more important - discussion would be:
'Where is the music, the source material in 32/384 quality?
I don't see anything anywhere - not even near that!
Marketing gear with these specs is pure hype.
BeoBoy68:@ Millemissen Bang & Olufsen is often ahead but they don't inform press media and dealers about possibilities. Very stupid communication.
Bang & Olufsen is often ahead but they don't inform press media and dealers about possibilities.
Very stupid communication.
I think that a great example of this was when B&O introduced the BeoLink PC2 with N.Music and N.Radio capability. At that time, early in the days of MP3s, there was nothing else like it. The ability to access your music collection from your computer from any linked room in the house was truly revolutionary. Yet, B&O did not take the opportunity to aggressively advertise this!