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Old phones as streaming sources

   I'm curious how many  of you have converted old phones to streamers. I have found  that when I remove the sim card and shut off blue tooth and wire the phone to a dac with an appropriate USB adapter cable, my old iphone 6s makes a pretty good streamer. Just wondering what others experiance has been. It is a really economical way to source digital to a 2nd or 3rd system. You can even cut electronic noise further by running on battery power when listening and shutting off the screen once the music is rolling. Going one step further would be to transfer local files to the phones memory and turn off wireless altogether. I have not done this but theoretically it should help. I usually just run the Qobuz app and stream from that to my Chord Mojo. What's your experiance?

 

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I've used an older android phone as a remote control for streaming Spotify but not as a host for local digital files. The real issue you run up against is that most of the streaming services update their apps with some frequency and eventually the phone (after no longer receiving firmware updates) can't run the latest streaming app.

Of course, I don't use Apple Airplay which forces you to stream tvia the phone so I avoid the issue of having the phone being the source when I'm at home. There, the phone is just a remote and volume knob at that point since I have some Denon home smart speakers that are connected directly to the home wi-fi and I use the onboard DAC. Which is fine for background music. 

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