Dear All,
I'd like to share my idea concerning the Fiio E17 with you. It was inspired by
this post some time ago ... and it took some time for me to understand the background of the matter, but this forum was very helpful ... thanks a lot to all of you
. I was a newby to such issues, but reading through this forum was (and is) educational, illuminative, interesting ... I think I'm able to find a lot more adjectives, but now let's cut to the chase
.
Especially at @IKE60, the initiator: my appreciations and acknowledgement for having such an idea!
I'm German, and I was astonished as I read the denomination "kludge". I have never seen this word so far, but my dictionary told me that this word means something like "Flickschusterei" in German .. we can translate this back into English as "something that was knocked together" ... I don't really think that it is a kludge ... this idea offers a lot of possibilties.
IKE60 used an Ipad - I adapted this for a Samsung Galaxy S3 with Android 4.1 (this version of the Android operating system is necessary, because henceforth, Android outputs the digital sound via USB).
Unfortunately, I'm not able to insert a picture of my gearshift assembly
. I'm relatively new to this forum, this is my second post - so I really hope you'll be patient with me. So I have to describe my procedure with words, maybe I can add the picture later if you like. But there is only one component more, so I think you can guess what I mean.
I used a 4-port USB hub too, but additionally, I connected a
Terratec Aureon Dual USB soundcard to the hub. The advantage of this card: it has optical output! I bought an optical cable and connected it directly to the optical input of the Fiio E17 ...
I ripped my favourite music to FLAC files (loseless!) and transferred them to the SG3 ... and since this moment, I really enjoy the impressive sound of the "kludge". All the components are lightweight - I put them all together, installed them in a laptop bag ... and are able to use the "kludge" outdoors ... This is great
or, as we can say in French, "vraiment inimitable"
.
I think if we root the SG3 and copy additional music files to an additional USB stick, add it to the hub and perform an Android media scan, those files should appear in the media library - by the way, my favourite app is
powamp.
We can think of a better sound card ... one which is able to manage 24 bit / 96 kHz ... because the Fiio E17 is able to handle this resolution via optical input ... I'm not sure if Android is capable of outputting 24 bit / 192 kHz ...
Have a look at the
Samsung Galaxy Smart Dock Multimedia Hub. Using this device, we should be able to direct the stream directly into our amplifier at home.
If you have further ideas, improvements, own experiences or annotations to my post, please let me know.
Kind regards, Frank