I recently switched from Android to an iPhone but there is one streaming app that doesn’t run well in Macland so I did the exact thing the OP mentioned when I listen to this service. It works well. The caveat is the app is for Pristine Classical, a label the specializes in digital restoration of old classical recordings, some of which are a century old. The digital restorations are amazing, and I have compared the android phone as a player to some of the same recordings that were downloaded to my server and played via my CA streamer and can detect no difference; however despite the quality of the restoration work they are perhaps not the best recordings to make sweeping generalizations from
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?