Oppo 95 HDCD playback over HDMI, does it work?

[Owen Smith]

Trying to play HDCD Sampler Volume 2 on my Oppo 95 connected over HDMI to Arcam AVR31. HDCD lights up on the Oppo front panel, but the TV display for the Oppo still says 44.1kHz 16 bit and I thought HDCD is 20 bits. Unfortunately the AVR31 only tells me the sample rate not bit depth.

 

[H.A.L.]

Be sure to have the right hdmi cable for the tv as far as speed goes. I was having trouble with my Oppo and my tv needed a faster eARC hdmi cable than I was using. The tv might be the limiting factor here, though, and not the cable speed.

 

[4-earredwonder]

Trying to play HDCD Sampler Volume 2 on my Oppo 95 connected over HDMI to Arcam AVR31. HDCD lights up on the Oppo front panel, but the TV display for the Oppo still says 44.1kHz 16 bit and I thought HDCD is 20 bits. Unfortunately the AVR31 only tells me the sample rate not bit depth.

When I poised this question a few years back, a QQ poster informed me that even though it doesn't display 20 bit on the screen it is internally decoded as 20 bit.

OTOH, when I play an MQA CD it initially shows up as 16/44.1 on the screen but if I push the display button it definitely shows 24b/88.2 kHz on the screen!