[Ren]

I recently upgraded my BDP-1 to Manic Moose firmware.  Mostly a good experience.  BDP-1 still sounds outstanding.

I have a question about the MM display... one has the option of displaying bitrate during playback.  The bit rate display varies quite a bit, and I don't know why that should be so.  If, for example, I'm playing back a 16-bit, 44.1 kHz stereo file, why wouldn't the display simply show a basically constant value of 16 x 44100 x 2 = 1,411,200 bits per second?  A bit is a bit, whether that bit has a value of 0 or of 1, right? Hmmm...

Thanks for your thoughts / explanations!

Ren

[srb]

What file format are the files?  If they are WAV or AIFF files, then yes, I would expect the bitrate to be displayed as 1411kbps.  If they are lossless compressed FLAC or ALAC, then the bitrate displayed as received would be smaller and variable, and after decoding would of course be equal to 1411kbps constant bit rate.

Steve

[Ren]

Doh!   

Thanks!  I forgot about the compression in FLAC files.  I think I have a couple of WAV files somewhere.  I'll try one.

Ren