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So you want to plug a Music Streamer into your iPad/iPod/iPhone .... enter the iStreamer

post #1 of 5
12/7/10 at 9:54pm
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Not sure if I should tell HRT that there is a popular app called 'iStreamer', but I doubt that the iFaithful will care about the latter. If it works the same magic with your digital out as it does with my netbook (granted, at 16/44.1 instead of 24/96), you will have a smile from ear to ear.

 

Failing that, I think Vinnie is still taking orders for the iMod  :)

 

http://www.highresolutiontechnologies.com/istreamer/

 

(for the inevitable cries of 'what ? no 192 ? how can I work in these conditions !', I can only offer this

- 16/44.1 done well sounds a lot better to my ears than upsampling done poorly - YMMV)

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post #2 of 5
12/7/10 at 10:01pm
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Whoa - hope the price in your neck of the woods is less than the 195 pound figure being thrown around at WHF:

 

http://whathifi.com/News/Audiofreaks-set-to-launch-HRT-iStreamer-for-iPods-iPads-and-iPhones/

 

Projected release is February according to the mag, so plenty of time to save up and get this and the StepDance - you will be the envy of every iAddict in town :)

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post #3 of 5
12/7/10 at 11:37pm

Desktop only plugged into a wall wart ruins any interest for me.  Let's see how the story unfolds.

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post #4 of 5
12/8/10 at 11:21am

+1. What's the point if it needs to be plugged into a wall. Just about everybody who has an ipod, iphone, or has a computer, and there are tons of less expensive options available for it. If it's only going to be stationary, I would rather use one of the digital out docks already available and use a much higher quality dac. The reason people uses ipods is because it's portable. "That is why we play with ipods, to be portable. Hello?" I know some won't get it but American football fans will. LOL.

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post #5 of 5
12/8/10 at 2:24pm
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Point taken - my Streamer II runs completely off USB power, but obviously HRT dont have that 'automatic' power streaming from the line-out on an iDevice. I suspect that adding the ability to run the thing from a 9V battery would make it too large for anyone to consider for portable use, so they would have been somewhere between a rock and a hard place from day one.

 

On the other point, I'd be really interested to know how many Head-Fiers have actually bought the Wadia/Onkyo docks and connected them to a higher end DAC. Perhaps I'm projecting my own bank balance onto others, but I suspect that our ambitions usually outstrip our budgets by at least 5 to 1  :)

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