Old phones as streaming sources

'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.'

Good on you mate. My experience is yours. I'm using my 2 old Samsung S3 including a Cambridge XS and a Violectric Chronos DAC for on the fly listening. I am listening as well with the Samsung Galaxys Tab S 2, in this case going into integrated amps with USB 2.0. For this, I have a (now very hard to find) docking station where I connect the USB A-B cable.

In addition, I have downloaded the USB Audio Player Pro app, running all locally stored music files and Quobuz. You would pay a small amount for the USB Player Pro app and you can use it for all your android gear, paying only once. It is this app which makes a big difference, IMO.

To my ears and in my system and listening environement, the above solution is more than decent and inexpensive.

For iOS, instead of USB Audio Player Pro it could be the TEAC HR Audio Player app.

'A friend of mine mentioned that Aurender said somewhere in their literature that the streamer accounts for 70% of the sound quality of a system vs 30% DAC.'

I have found the following excerpt (opinion) on  Moon Audio's website:

'In our opinion, the DAC will account for about 70% of the sound quality, with the streamer accounting for the other 30%. So spend more money on your DAC (if you're buying one). But know that both are important.'

Now what?

This leads to my conclusion that every one who is interested in this topic needs to find out for himself where the truth lies. Like many other comments on various topics in this forum, I would assume 'it depends'.

I for myself prefer to use the time needed to find the answer to above for listening to music instead. That said, I found a very nice recording just this weekend of the Willis Jackson Quintet,  'Cool Grits'.

I needed to start this title right now after realizing that it seems that I am a bit overwhelmed.. 'Cool Grits' does some good soothing..

This statement is not ment to be sarcastic.

Cheers! to all of you

@ghdprentice "The moral of the story is that everything matters."

Yes, I do agree. Maybe some things more than others.

I still have to buy a streamer to find out if it would offer a better audible sound quality to me compared to my actual setup. Due to budget constraints, this is not going to happen very soon.