New blog post on the world of portable hi res audio

Rebbi  take a look at the Audioengine B1 Bluetooth receiver for an easy way to stream audio to your system from any Bluetooth enabled device.   

I use plex.  You can build a lossless flac music library and stream it from a web browser for free.  From anywhere with an Internet connection.    Plex app for mobile devices is $5.    Works great.   Premium plex subscription recognizes your music files (think Shazam) and tags them automatically. 

I bought an Audioengine Bluetooth receiver and when I could get it to connect it sounded good in a nice size but the Bluetooth connection was problematic. I tried it with multiple devices but it just didn't work at all well. It must have been a defective Bluetooth receiver.

I returned it and decided to try the Peachtree Audio deepblue2. The Bluetooth works perfectly and the sound is much better than the Audioengine, admittedly in a larger device and costing $100 more.

rebbi,
Very timely thread.

I've been reading threads over on Head-Fi. It seems the sound quality of portable systems has gotten very good.

 

I'd be very interested in your comparison between a high end main system vs a high quality portable system. Most of the discussions on Head-fi are comparisons among head phone systems only.

My main system is all digital -- expensive and extensive. I'm fussy about SQ but if a portable system could approach the SQ of my main, the compactness and convenience might make me rethink the whole concept of a main system.

Getting good sound out of a computer system is expensive and frustrating.

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@mapman  Sounds cool and I'm not familiar with that product. I'll take a look.

@cjk5933 Thanks for the kind words and glad you found the post useful. Your question is an excellent one and I'm still wrapping my brain around it, coming as I do from the high-end home system world to the portable audio world.
I'll say this: I find the portable/headphone experience to be quite different than the home audio experience, so it's not a matter of home "vs." portable, but rather, whether you find a portable experience musically satisfying and emotionally moving. I find that I listen differently via my Etymotic ER-4P IEM's and iBasso DX80 DAP than I do on my home rig. It's a more intimate experience in some ways. I'm planning on writing about this on my blog, but I don't yet have the vocabulary to do it! Give me some time and I'll have more to say.  ;-)