Player For High Resolution Video

[Darth Gupta]

First switch the USB mode to USB DAC mode (Enter the setting menu to switch USB mode to select DAC). After that, connect the F20 to the computer via USB and use it as USB DAC. (Before using on Windows computers, you'll also need to install the DAC driver, The 32GB memory card that comes with F20 has already stored the driver, need to copy and install it. )

When using the Bluetooth headphone with the F20 for the first time, need pair the two devices. Please make sure that the Bluetooth headphone is in pairing mode (just like the very first time that you use the Bluetooth headphone with other devices). When the Bluetooth headphone is in pairing mode, turn on Bluetooth on the F20 and search for the headphone to connect.

This digital music player adopts 2.0" TFT screen(320*240) . Distinctive ALPS scroll control wheel enables fluent operation, a high-grade zinc alloy chassis gives a comfortable feel and touch, not to mention sturdy protection for prolonged durability

A Steinway SPIRIO grand piano is a high-quality Steinway grand that invites you to play, fulfils the highest demands and offers a great playing experience. Play it yourself or let the grand piano play for you!

STEINWAY SPIRIO, our first high-resolution self-playing system, is another remarkable masterpiece that will fascinate you. Immediately transform your living room into a concert hall to enjoy lifelike interpretations of great pianists.

SPIRIO is available in two variants, the models O-180 and B-211. The STEINWAY experts use all their expertise to integrate SPIRIO during the normal production process, ensuring that the beauty and the feeling of the instrument are maintained.

Thanks to its aesthetic proportions and a length of 211 cm, the Model B is one of the most popular grand pianos of our private customers. Consequently, it is also available as SPIRIO and already found many fans.

Length: 211 cm
Width: 148 cm
Weight: 354 kg

This month we feature new tracks from the excellent young pianist from China, Wei Luo. She performs a short set of works by Spanish composers as well as Debussy, and is featured in a SpirioSync video of the Spanish Dance Op. 37 No. 2 by Granados recorded at Steinway Hall in New York.

It is the year of the Dragon, and our Spirio playlists have been updated to celebrate the Lunar New Year this month. There are Classical standards like Jasmine Flower, and many popular tunes such as The Moon Represents My Heart. This is music that can be appreciated by all audiences.

Today when using BlueOS the user has to laboriously navigate for each individual track to know sample rate and bit depth, over and over again. I noticed the sample rate and bit depth feature has been asked for many times on this forum for a couple years now. Apparently users like to sit back and listen, and be sure of the highest quality sample rate and bit depth when different tracks are playing.

In 2021 streaming services offer audio files with greater than CD quality (see minimum stream rate table below *) but that's not always what you get. Also without knowing, users can limit and reduce the offered quality depending devices and connection quality.

Could you please advise what is withholding BlueSound? Or, if mine and many other users (repetitive) requests are able to convince Bluesound, when can we expect to be sure BlueOS will play Hi-Res with zero loss in sound quality?

I'd like to see resolution displayed as well though in my experience and to my ears, far too much attention is paid to the sample rate and bit rate rather than the quality of the recording. I own many 24/192 recordings which are excellent but also many 16/44.1 which are fantastic. A lot of musicality can be expressed in 16/44.1, more important is the entire signal chain.

I'm a recent convert to Roon and would encourage those who have the requisite equipment to give it a trial, it's DSP functions actually improve the signal path and the sound. In so many ways it improves the user experience whether streaming or playing local files.

I copy you on Roon, I currently do not use it. I am not sure Roon shows resolution on the playing now screen? On June 15th a community/roonlabs user is asking: Please show bit depth & sample rate on bar at bottom.

I got your point about overestimating resolution. It depends. I do not go beyond 24/192 because of my DAC limitation. But my point is we should be able to see in 'Playing Now' what resolution is playing in BlueOS regardless of quality (or not). In a perfect world it would be nice to see what resolution is coming in AND what is going out. Maybe I'll ask that in a few years.

But how do you know your BlueOS system is playing your 24/192 files with the right resolution, and not 16/44.1 for example, without looking it up under Technical Info? Maybe it sounds already good to you, maybe it could even sound better!

Higher resolution doesn't always signify better sound. Many files are simply upsampled or digitized recordings from vinyl sources. Many factors contribute to quality audio and while resolution is an important one, it is not the only or necessarily the sine qua non of good audio.

Roon display what they refer to as the Signal Path from source to output, showing inputs in the chain. Following are 2 examples, the first from Tidal MQA to a Pulse (ORFS means original file sample rate), the second from a local 24/192 file to a Node 2i.

Resolution is system and ear dependent, no doubt. Each (original) music file comes with a specific resolution. The streaming process does affect the quality of the sound until it can stream lossless where in theory the streaming does not affect the quality of sound. Whether or not people can hear the difference is a topic for another discussion. I'm just making sure I can play the music in its original form.

The feature request above is about showing sample rate and bit depth in BlueOS in Now Playing screen. It is up to BlueOS users how to treat this information, or they can ignore it, but should you? More and more music files will become Hi-Res. Eventually streaming companies will be more clear about quality of different sound files, specially if clients can easily verify resolution of the sound file they receive.

I'll chime in here - this is a no-brainer for premium audio equipment. The quality of the source material and how many times it has been re-encoded before being offered on a streaming service is irrelevant. This feature is all about showing the user that their equipment is functioning the way it is supposed to.

This should be displayed for dolby/movie content as well (we all spend so much time on these damn product forums tyring to get our music or movies to play the correct/best audio).

The business case is this - if it works correctly, Bluesound will get a few less customer support requests since users will actually see that they are getting the correct playback.

It's amazing we have time left over to actually enjoy the art we want to experience using these products!

The point of my post : ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE PLAYING HIGH-RES? is that I still suspect BlueOS is either not playing the original bit-depth or there is some sort of processing within BluOS. Sound quality from the same files played with my NAD C 658 and BlueOS is not on par with the other two players I am using (Euphony OS and JRiver) and both for a fraction of the cost.

In 2021 (*update 2022 ) streaming services offer audio files with greater than CD quality (see minimum stream rate table below *) but that's not always what you get. Also without knowing, users can limit and reduce the offered quality depending devices and connection quality.

Despite the death of the iPod, old-school portable MP3 players that you can take everywhere with you are still alive and kicking. They're far more advanced than just storing and playing MP3 files these days, too. Today's pocketable music players fully support high-resolution audio formats such as WAV, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF and DSD files (which your smartphone can't convert), and pack in high-quality digital-to-analogue-converters, amplifiers and software whose main job is to ensure your music files are played in the best, lossless quality possible.

Many DAPs these days will let you download Tidal and Qobuz so you can stream your favourite playlists, and with many players now boasting a day's worth of battery, it means you can always carry your music library with you and listen without interruption even in the depths of the London Underground or up in the air. Most players will also have expandable memory storage, so you can carry thousands of albums with you.

In the end, it depends on your listening habits. If you want to keep music listening separate from your phone, are on the move a lot, or are interested in getting the best sound possible from a pocket-friendly device, a portable music player is a great option to consider.

This will depend on the format and size of your files. As a rough estimate: your average three-minute song in 128kbps MP3 quality has a file size of 3MB, while the same in WAV/CD quality is considerably larger at 30MB, with FLAC files falling in the middle at 15MB.

This means a player's standard onboard storage of 32GB will hold just over 10,000 MP3 files. You'll want a larger (at least 64GB) storage capacity if you want to store multiple albums in CD or hi-res quality, while investing in a 1TB memory card will help you expand that even further.

Just beware that the advertised storage won't be entirely for storing your music. A portion of that 32GB (or 64GB) onboard storage will be taken up by the player's system and software, so make sure to check the actual available storage in the settings.

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