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Why is an iPhone such a good streamer?

For streaming Qobuz I have been using my iPhone 12 via lightning cable and found it to be excellent.   It’s easy to carry around and use it in my garages or listening room.  I previously used a Pro-ject Stream box Ultra S2 but that now sounds closed in compared to the iPhone.   The Pro-ject was good when Roon wasn’t working I could switch to that for a local library and Qobuz

 Associated Equipment:  listening Room: T&A Dac 200 via USB cable Spectron amp vcap upgrade remote sense cables  Legacy Studio Monitors

Garage 1  Teac USB player and CD combo  Krell 400xI integrated  Revel Ultra floor standers

Garage 2  Bose Wave with Aux input USB cable  - will be replaced with a receiver Sansui 4000 B&W 605 bookshelf

can’t seem to get Roon ARC going yet since I moved and my listening room has no Ethernet connection and is a floor away.  I have a Nucleus to get going again

Other experiences or better streamers?

 

 

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@ghdprentice You are the biggest advocate of high end streamers I know. I recently had the chance to listen to the new Taiko XDMI streamer output into the Lampizator Horizon designed to use it. For those who don’t know, the XDMI signal comes directly from the BIOS of the streamer motherboard, thus avoiding interface with any operating system. Lukas Fikus was there to demonstrate it for 2 days and it was spectacular. I’d say this is the next big step in sound, but it comes at a 6 digit price.

Jerry

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