Power as in your ac lines has the most dramatic effect of everything. Address this first to get the most of everything that is plugged into it starting with your source wether it be ur computer, music server, dac, pre, amp, ect. ect.
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Greetings,
I have an ongoing lack of understanding about what piece of equipment in the following system, actually gives the music it's final quality out to my speakers.
**Thumb-drive with 48000Hz, 24-bit .wav music---to Samsung Android phone---analogue out of phone's earphone jack---to input on amp---to 16 ohm speakers.**
Will a quality amp, tube or other, influence the quality, or is it already set by the phone's DAC?
I only want to use the phone for it's interface to select my files to play. I have read that any DAC connected to the phone's analogue earphone jack, ...will by-pass the phone's DAC? This comment has been both substantiated and ridiculed, so I'm at a loss here.
Seems to me that the earliest the quality is set, that anything after will just be upsampling.
Is my most logical route to buy a DAC with a visual screen for file selection?
Any help here....would.....ah, ....help!
Thanks.
I have an ongoing lack of understanding about what piece of equipment in the following system, actually gives the music it's final quality out to my speakers.
**Thumb-drive with 48000Hz, 24-bit .wav music---to Samsung Android phone---analogue out of phone's earphone jack---to input on amp---to 16 ohm speakers.**
Will a quality amp, tube or other, influence the quality, or is it already set by the phone's DAC?
I only want to use the phone for it's interface to select my files to play. I have read that any DAC connected to the phone's analogue earphone jack, ...will by-pass the phone's DAC? This comment has been both substantiated and ridiculed, so I'm at a loss here.
Seems to me that the earliest the quality is set, that anything after will just be upsampling.
Is my most logical route to buy a DAC with a visual screen for file selection?
Any help here....would.....ah, ....help!
Thanks.