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Newbie question.

I have a pretty nice older system. I don’t know a lot about high end audio. I’m learning about flac files and am interested in trying that out. Trying not to spend any serious money since I don’t know what I’m doing yet. And I have a question that is probably pretty dumb.

My system consists of a nice older (10-15 years old) pre-amp and amp. I’m using a new Sony tuner/amp/receiver with pre-out connectors into the pre-amp to listen to the radio. It has a 1/8 jack input port. If I have flac files on my iPhone and route them through this 1/8 inch jack into the Sony and then into the pre-amp.....am I defeating the purpose of using a lossless file format?


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reubent
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Do you have any available open RCA inputs on the ARC pre-amp? If so, just get a 1/8" to dual RCA male cable, like the one linked here:

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=5597

You can probably get one of these cables at many brick/mortar electronics store or Amazon.

You will plug the 1/8" connector into your phones headphone output, and the RCA's into any available input connector on the ARC pre-amp. This will remove the unnecessary Sony from the chain. For a couple of bucks, it's well worth a shot.


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