Fun at the local B&M

For the first time in awhile I managed a few hours at one of the long standing local B&M shops yesterday just to look around and hear a few new things.  

Armed with imy new IPhone 6s  I spent an hour or so auditioning a few things using my home music library streaming at high resolution via Plex as the source.  What a great way to audition new gear remotely!

This is was first time I've used the IPhone analog output with a high res digital source to audiog gear.  It was great.   Sound was top notch and I was able to audition using any of over 2000 CDs on my music server back home. 

I spent most of of my time auditioning new speaker models mostly from B&W and Monitor Audio.   Both lines sounded very good!   I did not have time to hear the top of the line models but what I did hear  impressed me for the cost.  My iPhone actually sounded better than a fairly recent vintage Denon CD player that we tried as well.   

I reached the conclusion that portable devices like newer IPhones make viable sources for a quality system when the software and source material resolution is up to the task as well.