Amazon Music High Definition and Ultra High Definition Equipment Requirements


My goal is to use my late-model iPhone to stream music from Amazon HD/Ultra-HD through some sort of DAC and then on to my stereo (old McIntosh with Bozak speakers). I see that the upper transmission rate specified by Amazon is 24 bit/192 kHz. Am I correct in assuming that a DAC such as, for example, the Schiit Modi+ , will allow me to accomplish this goal?  For reference, here is. link to specs on this DAC:

 

Schiit DAC Specs

philip123456

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My understanding is that streaming through an iPhone is capped at 24-bit/48 kHz lossless audio. Any DAC induced further upscaling from that - even if it is even possible with your suggested budget Schitt which I tentatively highly doubt - … is a big performance compromise at a minimum that won’t get you anywhere near the audio performance of a native hi-rez 24/192 pair of discrete hi-end units.

Toddle down to your fave bricks and mortar high-end audio store and actually go audition a dedicated high-end streamer capable of 24/192 as a source, now feeding into a high-end DAC capable of 24/192+ rez …. The audio performance improvement provided by each component in the link are huge.