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You have to have quality on every link in the chain. What's the highest bitrate iPod supports and what are the specs of its DAC?
by binbag 5y ago
You have to have quality on every link in the chain. What's the highest bitrate iPod supports and what are the specs of its DAC?
- jiofih 5y ago-120 dBV noise floor, absolutely flat response curve, near zero output impedance, stable voltage, 0.002% THD (-100/120dB), it can play FLAC 24/96 The iPod touch specs are slightly better than an iPhone, and some old classic models were even better. couldn’t find the hifiberry specs sheet to compare. I imagine it’s not necessarily worse, but wondering is the whole setup worth the trouble?
- binbag 5y agoI think you can totally do what you're saying and the user interface will be great, although local to the speakers. I'm not sure if iPod DAC can actually faithfully process 24/96? If so, that's an option via flac. Once you add speakers to your set up, you're looking at the same price as the chain I suggested. The benefits of going the hifiberry route are: - You connect from any device on your network and tell the pi to stream - either from a local NAS or from a hq streaming service like tidal - It can pull and faithfully process 24/96 master streams and MQA - You don't need to use a user interface on the device itself or load files onto it - Bit of hobbyist fun