Apple Lossless Carplay on Mark Levinson

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Hi

was wondering anyone has any tips on getting the best out of the Apple lossless from Apple CarPlay on the Mark Levison systems.

Does the Mark Levinson on board the Lexus ES300H have a DAC to convert the files and play as lossless fidelity as I am using a Lightning to USB cable to the car.

thanks guys
 

Ian Schmidt

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Apple doesn't detail what the audio transport mechanism is for CarPlay - they're kind of a secretive company about their special sauces. I would assume for wired CarPlay at least that it's just an uncompressed stereo PCM stream, with the ALAC or whatever unpacked by the phone. In that case lossless Apple Music songs should hit the DAC in the Levinson system with no alterations.