Playing USB files via AVR or blu ray; any audiophile upgrades available?

[keenly]

I play a lot of music from USB sticks, sometimes using hub with 4 stick on.



I was wondering is there were any upgrades? Audiophile hubs, sticks, leads or are all these useless?



cheers



Paul

 

[TLS Guy]

I play a lot of music from USB sticks, sometimes using hub with 4 stick on.



I was wondering is there were any upgrades? Audiophile hubs, sticks, leads or are all these useless?



cheers



Paul

Useless!

 

[keenly]

Useless!

OK lol

Is there any evidence of audio quality differences between playing USB and discs via blu ray? I normally have m2ts files from blu ray or High resolution 24 192 flac files.

 

[lovinthehd]

If you're playing the same quality files, e.g. the same m2ts files as the bluray, why would there be a difference? If the FLAC is of a lossless 24/192 track, the flac remains lossless. Why would you think it wouldn't be equal?

 

[dolynick]

OK lol

Is there any evidence of audio quality differences between playing USB and discs via blu ray? I normally have m2ts files from blu ray or High resolution 24 192 flac files.

If both the USB MTS files and the bluray disc are being decoded by the DAC in the AVR, they should sound exactly the same. If the bluray player is not bitstreaming and is decoding the the audio internally and passing to the AVR over basic PCM, then there might be a difference (depends on how comparable the internal DAC in the bluray player is). Most likely your player is bitstreaming though and if your AVR reports Atmos, etc when playing a movie, then it is definitely configured for bitstreaming.

Lossless audio in an MTS file should be 24bit/48kHz. Your 24/192 flac files are technically superior (assuming the source for the encoding wasn't limited in some way in the first place) but it's unlikely you'll be able to tell a difference between them.