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Bet you Apple ear pods sound better than Focal Elears too?
Enjoy the music...
Point of higher priced streamer?
Hello,
Assuming I have separate DAC, and I just want to play songs from iPad by Airplay feature.
In this case, I need a streamer to receive music from my iPad -> DAC.
What’s the point of high price streamer? I’m bit surprised that some streamers are very high priced.
From my understanding, there should be no sound quality difference.
(Streaming reliability and build quality, I can see it but I do not see advantages in terms of sound quality.)
Am I missing something? If so, please share some wisdom.
Assuming I have separate DAC, and I just want to play songs from iPad by Airplay feature.
In this case, I need a streamer to receive music from my iPad -> DAC.
What’s the point of high price streamer? I’m bit surprised that some streamers are very high priced.
From my understanding, there should be no sound quality difference.
(Streaming reliability and build quality, I can see it but I do not see advantages in terms of sound quality.)
Am I missing something? If so, please share some wisdom.
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I didn't feel like reading through the volleyball match of one-sided opinions on this entire thread, so maybe you mentioned it. What DAC do you have? I mean, I'd say yeah it won't make a huge impact on a lower end DAC, but it's a FACT a streamer makes a size-able, audible, not so subtle difference in higher end systems with a DAC that's able to respond to a more pure source. The way you need to look at this is simple...Back in the day, did a shitty TEAC CD player sound better than a high end CD Player? Just replace CD player with Streamer and you have your answer. The DAC in the Node 2i, would qualify as a very low end DAC. In HiFi terms anyway. |
The OP is long gone. He said he joined ASR for advice. In fact, I am pretty sure he did not intend to gather any advice here. More like throwing a grenade and enabling various snake oil screechers, including the biggest of them all, the guy who keeps coming back over and over with different usernames, after being banned at least five times. |
jc51373343 posts01-12-2021 7:33pmI didn't feel like reading through the volleyball match of one-sided opinions on this entire thread, so maybe you mentioned it. What DAC do you have? I mean, I'd say yeah it won't make a huge impact on a lower end DAC, but it's a FACT a streamer makes a size-able, audible, not so subtle difference in higher end systems with a DAC that's able to respond to a more pure source. Of course this makes little sense at all and the opposite is actually true. A high end DAC (in most cases) is designed to mitigate external sources of electrical noise, and if an optical/co-ax connection, jitter. What exact is "pure" anyway. It is pretty much guaranteed it will be bit perfect unless the streamer intentionally modifies the data stream. So at that point you have noise and jitter. Expensive DACs "should" deal with that far better than a cheaper DAC. |