The iPhone 5 was known to have a very good dac built in. Just as the play station 1 was known to be a very good cd player.
Old phones as streaming sources
I'm curious how many of you have converted old phones to streamers. I have found that when I remove the sim card and shut off blue tooth and wire the phone to a dac with an appropriate USB adapter cable, my old iphone 6s makes a pretty good streamer. Just wondering what others experiance has been. It is a really economical way to source digital to a 2nd or 3rd system. You can even cut electronic noise further by running on battery power when listening and shutting off the screen once the music is rolling. Going one step further would be to transfer local files to the phones memory and turn off wireless altogether. I have not done this but theoretically it should help. I usually just run the Qobuz app and stream from that to my Chord Mojo. What's your experiance?
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@audioguy85 Good for what they are maybe, but not good compared to anything designed specifically for audio. C’mon man. |
@bruce19 you recruited a lot of single samples united by a culture of expectation bias x rejection of scientific process. I totally understand buyers not being down for doing that! What I tend to scratch my head over is how some folks pay manufacturers (who avoid said due diligence) so much for devices that aren’t verifiably (audibly) different. To each their own. I just use the old phone as the remote for a headless streamer. Personal preference based on nothing pretending to be a meaningful, broadly applicable test 😉
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@benanders Speak for yourself. Plenty of us have heard big improvements moving up to streamers from Aurender, Innuos, etc. Maybe it’s time you tried something better than your Raspberry Pi and see/hear for yourself. |
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