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Gerry,
Don’t worry about alienating anyone on here. If we all agreed on everything, it would be a boring place indeed.
May I suggest daphile? I use it with an external DAC directly feeding an Adcom GFA-555 power amp. You can operate it directly or through an app on your iPad, iPhone, or (I assume) Android device.
https://www.daphile.com/ <https://www.daphile.com/>
Regards,
Fred
> On May 26, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Gerry Pehl Gerry.Pehl-krK+l/[email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I’m looking for a device or system something similar to the original poster, but with these specifics:
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> 1- fairly open source- I want to be able to stream and play ‘whatever’ without having my files get ‘imported’ or transcoded, or whatever- I’d like to be able to just point at a file or a stream and have it work, and I don’t want it to do anything with my files other than read them and then play them.
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> 2- flexible/nice remote user interface- specifically, it would be nice if there were an app for it, so that I can be sitting on the couch, and browse for streams and files on my iPad or droid or whatever.
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> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 7:23 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [EAC] Hardware to room play the collection
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> On May 26, 2016, at 4:56 AM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [EAC] <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> Apologies for the thread hijack, just singling out this bit:
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> > The audio quality problem depends on a number of factors, like how
> > you're connecting your library play-out system (e.g. iPhone) to your
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> Supposedly the iPhone's internal DAC and other audio components are
> not all that great - best to get an external DAC or a decent dock.
> Just google "iPhone [model #] DAC/dock" and check review sites such as
> head-fi.org <http://head-fi.org/> and whathifi.com <http://whathifi.com/>.
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> That’s simply untrue of the modern iPhones. Here’s a very good, instrumented review of the iPhone 5:
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> http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/iphone-5/audio-quality.htm <http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/iphone-5/audio-quality.htm>
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> In it, Ken Rockwell concludes:
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> "Confirming what I hear with critical listening, the iPhone 5 is a wonderful high-fidelity audio source. While publications funded mostly by advertisements from makers of expensive cables, power conditioners and outboard DACs don't want you to know this, the iPhone 5 is a better audio source than most DACs will be when connected to a computer or CD transport. The only difference is that the iPhone has a level 6 dB lower than a proper CD player, but the iPhone still has more output at 1 V full-scale than some outboard audiophile DACs!
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> Ignore those who confuse the iPhone with crappy MP3 players; the iPhone has wonderful audio quality for serious music listening either directly with good or great headphones or plugged into the rest of your high fidelity system.”
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> head-fi.org <http://head-fi.org/> and whathifi.com <http://whathifi.com/> are filled with “subjective” reviews authored by people standing in a circle trying to impress one another with their “refined taste” and “superb listening skills.” If you secretly put an iPhone 6 inside of a case with a 1/4” thick milled front panel sporting a pretentious sounding name in cursive script and a $1700 price tag, many of the same “reviewers" who panned the iPhone 6 would be telling you how wonderful this “new” audiophile DAC sounds. That’s because they are like so many of the “wine connoisseurs” with “refined palates” who praise $7 wines from grocery stores when they do blind tastings but call those same wines undrinkable dreck when they watch them poured from the labeled bottles before tasting them.
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> Sorry for the rant, but I’ve been into high-end audio since the 1980s and it’s disgusting how it has devolved into something akin to “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
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