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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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I’m listening to Pandora right now off my iPhone and it sounds dandy.

Use a lightning to camera adapter and it bypasses the internal dac. Have it plugged into my Mytek dac. I wouldn’t say comparable to a good streamer, but still sounds darned good. Get the adapter then plug your iPhone into your t+a  dac and have a listen.

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