Originally Posted by
MisterNeil
Thank you for your reply. I agree with your assessment. I did follow up and spoke with tech support at Mark Levinson audio company, asking them the same question about ALAC bitrates. Tech support also confirmed the audio quality of ALAC/FLAC files is still 1411, but the lower bitrate as seen on their audio players was due to the compression size estimate. I presented this feedback from Mark Levinson to the customer, and he deflected the details saying, "their tech support did not know what they were talking about."
Again, thank you for your reply!!!