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Any comments about purely Sound Quality comparing Poly playing SD card files vs iPhone or iPad streaming same files to Mojo using Onkyo HF or Kaisertone apss?
Ask your self a simple question first. You are comparing two scenarios:can I connect my Bluetooth headphones to the poly? Probably not much point in doing so to listen to music originating from the phone, however Would be necessary to listen to what’s on the sdcard
Keep headphones connected and press the config button until it tells you. Going into roon mode. When you hear that release the pin. It will be in roon mode without access point mode
Well I'm now 24 hours into owning Poly so thought I'd share my experiences so far after following this thread from the start!
Setup - no problem getting Poly connected to my home wifi network, following the instruction posted by @Mojo ideas a couple of pages back. Added an SD card with some FLAC files and I was playing from that as well as streaming from my home server with no difficulty once I'd worked through a few control issues (next).
Control - this has been a bit hit and miss. I'd hoped to use the Lumin app (on iOS) that works flawlessly with controlling my microrendu but sadly it doesn't see Poly as a renderer. It can see Poly's DLNA server with all of the contents of the SD card but just doesn't pick up Poly to point the music towards. I tried a multitude of free apps from the Apple app store but the only one that really works reliably is 8Player. I'm disappointed not to get Lumin working but 8Player is OK. If anyone has any ideas on how to get Lumin working, please let me know.
Sound - once I got the control sorted, I started listening properly. Despite what many might say, I've found a significant difference between feeding Mojo from my MacBook and a microrendu with LPS-1 linear power supply and a short John Swenson inspired DC power cable - the microrendu sounds incredible with Mojo using 44.1 Khz FLAC files transcoded to WAV and so so much better than using my MacBook. And Poly sounds just as good as the microrendu setup - I'm hard pressed to tell the difference between them using Poly's SD card loaded with 44.1 Khz FLAC files. Streaming from my home server over wifi is just about the same too - incredible!
Out and about - next I used the personal hotspot on my iPhone to connect to Poly again using 8Player - worked flawlessly.
So overall, I'm very impressed - if I could get the Lumin app working with Poly as well, that would be the icing on the cake. But the main thing is that it sounds amazing!
Next I'll subscribe to Tidal and see how that works out....
Well I'm now 24 hours into owning Poly so thought I'd share my experiences so far after following this thread from the start!
Sound - once I got the control sorted, I started listening properly. Despite what many might say, I've found a significant difference between feeding Mojo from my MacBook and a microrendu with LPS-1 linear power supply and a short John Swenson inspired DC power cable - the microrendu sounds incredible with Mojo using 44.1 Khz FLAC files transcoded to WAV and so so much better than using my MacBook. And Poly sounds just as good as the microrendu setup - I'm hard pressed to tell the difference between them using Poly's SD card loaded with 44.1 Khz FLAC files. Streaming from my home server over wifi is just about the same too - incredible!