The BeoSound 5 is high-end ! It's not a direct replacement for the BeoMedia; the BeoMaster 5 is, which is part of the BeoSound 5 package. The BeoSound 5 package is much more than just another a mediacenter - it's a BeoSound. If you find the price of a BeoSound 5 ridiculous, then you should also find the price of the BeoSound 4, BeoSound 3200, BeoSound

Debussy's Prelude A L'apres - Midi D'un Faune . (LSO) Arguably my favourite classical composer alongside Stravinsky, Mahler, Saint-Saëns and Holst (to narrow it down a little ).

I suppose it's due to mastering costs. 20 bit and 16 bit masters need to be produced. There's also the extra cost involved in actually implementing the decoding hardware. It's owned and patented by Microsoft.

HDCD has already provided an extra 4 bits (an extra 24 dB dynamic range) of information per sample on a standard format CD. No higher sample rate unfortunately though...

Llewelyn: Alex: wonderfulelectric: Well then so I guess you disagree that a good vinyl/mastertape will sound better than a DVD then. Vinyl is technically inferior to DVD Vinyl and digital media both have their merits, but I would argue that vinyl is actually technically superior since it produces a pure analogue wave and digital by its very nature is

Now listening to Dionne Warwick - Walk on By . One of the best songs ever written IMO. Bert Bacherach was absolutely stunning on TV the other night...

It is possible, for example using dynamic compression of some sort. If anything, upsampling the sound by one bit will do more to harm the sound than if you were listening with no upsampling taking place.

Why do you say that?

Currently listening to Joni Mitchell's Blue , after having just listened to Court & Spark .

It would require parts of the Olive's DAC to be running in 17 bit mode which would give you an extra 6dB headroom over a standard 16 bit DAC.