Hi-res streaming on Qobuz

Interestingly, the Oppo player doesn’t go through the DAC. So the problem may in the Gumby.

process of elimination

Yes, I tracked down in the Arcam documentation on how to access hi-res files.
When i tuned in the hi-res setting it said unsupported format, indicating the problem is in the Gumby.  I’ll investigate that now.

I can’t get a definitive answer, but I don’t think the Gumby supports hi-res streaming, even though the manual says it goes as high as 192mHz.
However it sounds so damn good I guess it doesn’t matter.

However it sounds so damn good I guess it doesn’t matter.

if it ain't broke, dont fix it. 

sometimes you have to leave well enough alone.

Just because your DAC tells you that it’s receiving 96K 24 bit or whatever, does not necessarily mean that you’re receiving hi-res. The DAC is exposing the container. There are loads of red-book files that are up-sampled to higher rates, but they contain no more information (data) than the CD; just a lot of extra zeros. This has also been done with SACDs.

If you really want to know what you have you need a "detective" program like MusicScope to tell you.

To which I would add that there was a thread here, not that long ago, wondering whether modern DACs do such a good job with red book that they often become indistinguishable from high-rez. Then there were the experiments with SACDs that were filtered down to red-book standards and were indistinguishable from the originals. It was, they said, all in the mastering.

To which I would add that many of us are listening through ears that do not hear what they heard some time ago.