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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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fuzztone
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I stream Qobuz from my phone temporarily just to make playlists since there is no "Connect" function.

The SQ blows. You can not get decent sound without a "single purpose" built device. A simple Raspberry Pi blows your contraption away.

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A Pi has to add on other purposes and is not built specifically to be a stinkin’ phone AND a camera+. I power mine with a filtered iPower Elite. You are free to show actual stats that it is inferior to a battery. Saying it does not make it so.

The best sounding streamers I have are all based on RasPi. (All better than my first, a BluNode.) RP tech is just a shortcut to sufficient processing power for a network player. Then design tech takes over to make them sound superior. I refuse to operate a "streamer" that cannot play local files including HiRez and DSD.

 

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Better off using an old smart phone for a dedicated wireless control of a designed "streamer.'

It just needs to be on the same network.

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