airplay question - 320kps support?

[hybridauth_Google_100828797020890269506]

can airplay support 320kps streaming from spotify/rdio?

i'm thinking about buying a marantz pm6005 - and using the built in DAC for streaming from an airport express, and want to know if that rig will support 320kps all the way.

thanks very much, and sorry if this is a silly question.

 

[chebby]

Yes.

 

[davedotco]

Yes.

To expand briefly, Airplay converts everything to Apple lossless (ALAC) and streams that. In this case it will convert Spotify Ogg Vorbis format to ALAC and the AEX will convert that to a SPDIF data stream or, via a bulit in dac, to analogue.

Streaming data files in this way should be bit perfect, if it is not then something is wrong or your settings are incorrect.

 

[hybridauth_Google_100828797020890269506]

thanks so much. looking forward to the new setup, should be a nice step up from streaming analog out at 192kps.