![]() Quality stereo music will have been mixed to set up the soundstage with depth and perceptual audio clues, but many would argue that converting this to surround would simply be artificial - I mean you rarely watch a band with people intermittently playing instruments behind you. Surround sound for older albums is a bit contentious I think. The majority of people who download however will probably mainly use portable devices so small file sizes and rapid downloads will be more important than sound quality for most of them given the playback limitations of portable devices. I think there should be a quality choice or at least an upgrade option (as there was with iTunes Plus tracks) if higher quality files become available. I agree with you that it's lamentable you can only buy compressed music from iTunes particularly if the files have DRM. Now if only Apple will start offering high resolution surround music downloads (hint, hint). For me, this hidden feature is worth the price of the Apple TV alone. I think that Apple TV users will be amazed what this device can do when paired with high quality 5.1 downloaded source files (assuming that you already have a quality home theater that supports multichannel music). If someone likes the concept of not having their computer on when using their home theater to play back these WAV files, then purchasing the Apple TV with the larger hard disk for syncing is the way to go. I own the 40 gig Apple TV so "syncing" is not a good option for me. It plays flawlessly with no hiccups for me. I have my music set to "stream" via my Apple Extreme router to the Apple TV. ![]() ![]() Then I opened iTunes to perform the track tagging of the songs (the "Command + I" technique on the Mac). Next, I purchased an iTRAX album download ("The Gypsy Life" by John Gorka). I have not had time to compare the WAV sound quality against one of my AIX DVDs (they own iTRAX), but will attempt to do so in the next month. The quality of the DTS format proved to be excellent. I discovered that the only 2 formats that work with i-Tunes are either MP3 or DTS (WAV). I used the free samples available on the site to find out which format would be compatible with iTunes. The only extra hardware requirement for me was to plug in an optical cable between the line output of Apple TV and an optical input of my AVR receiver. I recently discovered that I can use Apple TV to stream downloaded 5.1 WAV music files from my Mac to my surround sound home theater.
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