Wi Fi Digital Source

@pcrhkr - have you loaded your new phone with a whole bunch of apps? If so, and your older tablet has older and fewer apps on it, it could well be the contributing factor. Apps, especially the newer ones, are very power hungry and this creates the worst kind of environment for streaming, regardless of whether you’re using your device to merely control the stream, or if it’s part of the stream itself. If you use the phone on a daily basis as well, it’ll be constantly engaged; logged into alerts, notifications, and the like, producing enough internal jitter to give your what you’re experiencing. The best way to know for sure, is to shut down or better yet, remove all the apps on your phone, then try again. If you don’t use your tablet for anything else but streaming, get rid of every single other app on it for another possible uptick in sound quality. In any case, Samsung tablets are generally well known for a better environment of circuitry for quieter operation, their phones, not as much.

In friendship - kevin

@gkelly, She's correct. You can hear the difference.

FWIW,

 just bought the new Apple 16e and kept my 11.  The 16e is a huge improvement in the sound quality. I have no idea what’s different, the change is amazing.

@mswale

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Yep. You want to make sure your portable devices are controlling your Innuos, not streaming to it. So, you should be connected to your Innuous, not connected to Tidal on your phone/pad.

If you are connected to Tidal on your portable device, then you are using your  phone / pad as a streaming source and not the Innuos. 

Think the issue is one device is playing the music through the streamer, and the other is having the music playing on the streamer and using the device to control it. 

There is a huge difference between Tidal on a phone, and Tidal Connect on my streamer. The way to test is play music, then close the app on the device, if the music stops you are playing music from the device and not streamer. Another way is that when the streamer is playing, you should be able to control it from any device, more then one at a time. 

@danmar123 my sister claims that on her ultra, she can hear the difference between using QOBUZ connect and using the ultra app. INNUOS is known that if you use their app that that it sounds better than if trying to use roon. Also, INNUOS does not have Bluetooth. 

I don't drink at all. (Don't give guns to the Indians). I'm using the Wiim Ultra as my steamer. Believe me, it changes the sound. Come and give a listen.

How many drinks did you have between comparing both devices?

Your tablet or phone are just gui devices that tell your streamer/server what song to play, then the music goes straight from your streamer/server to your system. The only time your phone or tablet would impact the sound is if these devices would become the streamer (like using iTunes/Apple Music) then using airplay to send the sound to your system or Apple TV device or a HomePod.

Just my $.02. I have a Samsung 23 phone & a Samsung Ultra 10. Weather it's bluetooth or WiFi, in their settings there is an eq. If I play with those settings, the sound changes.....

No, an iPad would not make your system sound better.  The music signal shouldn’t pass through your phone or tablet.  Your phone or tablet just tells your streamer which stream to play.  @rick_n  has a better idea.

Sounds like one of your devices is casting the signal.  Turn Bluetooth off both devices and see if the issue persists.  Good luck.