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post #16 of 21
10/9/11 at 10:47am
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Originally Posted by qusp View Post

because usb hosting often requires the host to supply the power, fr tablets they usually have a higher capacity battery and higher output current on the usb, phones probably cannot support this due to smaller, lower capacity, lower voltage battery



Ah yes, that makes sense. I guess they could do it, just that your phone would die quickly.

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post #17 of 21
10/13/11 at 4:47am
Just to confirm the galaxy sii does not output digital audio via usb otg, to either my dacmagic or my bros behringer audio interface. Hopefully ice cream sandwich will be out on my phone soon as that should carry this ability.
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post #18 of 21
10/14/11 at 1:47pm
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Originally Posted by bunch View Post

Pity iPhones have superior sq compared to sq, was getting excited I could have a drag and drop flac player mad.gif


Ironic. I stand firmly in believing android has better sq. CyanogenMod has DSP manager and the stock music player there can decode flac. Though about amping, not so sure.

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post #19 of 21
10/14/11 at 6:43pm
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Originally Posted by Byakushiki View Post

Ironic. I stand firmly in believing android has better sq. CyanogenMod has DSP manager and the stock music player there can decode flac. Though about amping, not so sure.


You bias is showing because there is no way that Android can have a consistent measurement of SQ - different handsets uses different DAC chips yet the OS itself does so little in terms of SQ.  

 

It's like saying that Linux running on an onboard sounds better than a Windows/Mac running on a proper external DAC just because it is Linux, it makes no sense at all.


Edited by nanaholic - 10/14/11 at 7:18pm
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post #20 of 21
10/14/11 at 6:54pm

can an usb dac be used on iphone?

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post #21 of 21
10/14/11 at 7:24pm
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Originally Posted by keroro View Post

can an usb dac be used on iphone?


There are definitely external DACs that are designed to bypass the iphone's internal DAC via the iphone's contector if that's what you mean eg HRT iStreamer.  

 

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