So the KEF LSX II says, " can accept and process sources up to 384kHz/24bit when streaming over the network."

It is my understanding that this means:

Internal processing can handle high-resolution music files up 384/24.

However, the interspeaker connection bottlenecks to either 48 or 96khz.

  • In a wireless interspeaker setup: The audio is downsampled to 48kHz/24bit PCM.
  • In a wired interspeaker setup: The audio is downsampled to 96kHz/24bit PCM.

So, if you stream a 384kHz/24bit track to the system, the primary speaker processes it at its native resolution, the audio sent to the secondary speaker will be downsampled.

So what that is saying is???

If I am playing a vinyl rip that is 196/24 from my computer (let’s say directly connected to my DAC that also supports up to 384/24) that the output is going to downsample to a max of 96/24?

If I understand that correct, what’s even the point – or is it just so they can claim “384/24” and trick people with marketing it that way???

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  • calinet6@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s probably just what it supports as input. There’s some merit to that; because it means you won’t do down sampling multiple times, just the one time in the speaker DSP and connection.