Thank u, esp Danager. You were so perfect in your Sherlock Holmes. Here was my work this week:
iPhone built in DAC 46 kb/s
MacBook Pro to Dragonfly USB max 96 kb/s 24 bit but music has to be corregated through software and computer internal electrical parts. The chipset cannot go more than 96 because it is USB powered and at max.
Next up is 120volt DAC. Expensive for sure but wait…
Music storage device is even better sampling rate. Control needs computer screen? IPhkne control machine adds even more. I don’t have that much lossless yet. Internet streaming for the millennials and storage for us older folks?
Enter into the picture, older brother, audiophile since the 1970’s. 2400 lossless albums. Not the most current music collection but pretty darn good.
Thanks to Danager this is what I did: Big brother lending me a copy of his music in two 1Tb hard drives. Bought Sony HAPZ1ES second hand for $700. Downgraded my TMobile plan to eliminate extra 10 gig of hotspot. Enter TMobile Home Internet with unlimited broadband and faster than 5g cellular. Home Internet is $50. I save $15 for canceling the TMobile 40 gig package. Now my tv will hopefully stop buffering during those high bandwidth use Saturday mornings and Sunday evenings. I can still stream on Qobuz for $16 /mo without having to buy Apple’s music streaming for $10 per month in order to get lossless populated into my iphone /setup /music
i have not received it all or pulled it all together. This has been a journey. Yes, I did feel the need to bring up my hearing quality because I am 62 and had self doubt in my ability to appreciate the quality of music at my age.
Enter Danager. He (and my older brother) made me realize that we have been slowly duped by the music industry. The convinced us to stop buying 16 bit 48 kb/s Cd players and music stream plus buy those songs we want for a bargain price of 99 cents each. Forget buying a whole album when there is only one good song, right? Oh, then there is Bluetooth from your new iPhone and a Rocketfish Bluetooth receiver $15. Now we have wireless music streaming from our iphones to our stereo, on demand! We have our own Pandora playlist too. All this was too good to be true. We are in 2020 technology. The heck with all those CD cases all over the place and the towers of file storage or the Sony holder player of your 150 CD’s on shuffle so you never get tired of listening to them ever again.
The trouble for me was sitting down to finally listen to streaming music was Lost-Full and I did not know why. Thank you to Danager. The problem wasn’t in buying better and better speakers and amplifiers and figuring out what sounds best. The Bluetooth was the problem. No amount of money spent was going to give my stereo an upgrade if i kept the iphone to Bluetooth combination but who lets John Q. Public know that we have gone down the wrong path.
it isn’t so much about older age hearing loss. It isn’t about buying Audioquest’s $4500 carbon fiber RCA cables or changing out older McIntosh 120v cables to the wall plug in the ever ending search to just be able to enjoy music again. Ditch the iphone music app. Ditch the Bluetooth and live again. Buy a 120 volt DAC and if you can afford it, some storage.
Thank you, kind sir.
