[Kane Williams]

This all sounds good. If I have music on an external wifi enabled hard drive, can my iPhone 5s play these files via Onkyo player? Does the media software that comes with such hard drives come in to it these often don't support high res audio?

 

[iFi audio]

This all sounds good. If I have music on an external wifi enabled hard drive, can my iPhone 5s play these files via Onkyo player? Does the media software that comes with such hard drives come in to it these often don't support high res audio?

 
Hi,
 
Too much info to put into a few words but suffice to say, you download the App and the app runs on your iPhone/iPad and it plays the music stored on there.
 
If you wish to do what you outlined, you need to look at the Seagate or LaClie - but on iPhone/iPad, they are restricted to their App (like the Seagate app) which ONLY plays through iTunes.
 
And of course iTunes doesnt do half of what Onkyo HF Player and KaiserTone do....
 
Cheers

 

[Kane Williams]

Great info and answered my question. I feel that this is the missing link in using a phone/tablet for music playback and as soon as someone writes some software to allow this, it will be a winner!

There is a device by Verbatim that connects to any hard drive to make it wireless. If someone can get this to work, that would be great.

 

[iFi audio]

Great info and answered my question. I feel that this is the missing link in using a phone/tablet for music playback and as soon as someone writes some software to allow this, it will be a winner!

There is a device by Verbatim that connects to any hard drive to make it wireless. If someone can get this to work, that would be great.

 
Hi,
 
Computer Audio is dynamic (not static) so the changes come every few days/weeks/months whenever, whatever.
 
Previously, people (including iFi) were disappointed with the storage capacity of the iPhone/iPad. Now the portable NAS drives from Seagate et al have just undone the last hurdle with the iPhone/iPad, namely their storage capacity. Yes it needs refiniing (read: not tied to iTunes) but we are sure it will come.
 
But don't discount Android - we use the Sony Z2 tablet and phone and they are the bee's knees too.
 
We are truly in a golden era of portable hi-res audio.

 

[Kane Williams]

I'm not adverse to Android at all, in fact I have a tablet in the house that I was hoping to be my music server but music playback is really glitchy on it, even though it's quite powerful. I wish I'd bought something with a brand name! On the flip side, my iPhone is rock solid, so I would like to use this to access an external hard drive and play back via the iDSD Nano. I use Vox on my MacBook Pro and this will soon be available on iOS. No DoP yet, but this will come soon. DSD is currently converted to PCM.

 

[iFi audio]

I'm not adverse to Android at all, in fact I have a tablet in the house that I was hoping to be my music server but music playback is really glitchy on it, even though it's quite powerful. I wish I'd bought something with a brand name! On the flip side, my iPhone is rock solid, so I would like to use this to access an external hard drive and play back via the iDSD Nano. I use Vox on my MacBook Pro and this will soon be available on iOS. No DoP yet, but this will come soon. DSD is currently converted to PCM.

 
Hi,
 
When our customers ask us on the Support Ticket System,. we only recommend Sony Z-series on Android.
 
It is clear Sony is "into audio quality" and are pushing the audio envelope (quality, usability and functionality).
 
For anyone interested, the Z2 is only slightly lesser than the Z3 but it is significantly cheaper - so we recommend the Z2 as the best bang for the buck.
 
We also find the whole Z-series VERY stable - no less than iOS (famous last words).
 
Cheers.

 

[aemme]

Hi, I have a few days the iFi nano ISDC and would like to know if it is better to use the coaxial connection instead of analog. also with foobar 2000 and asio drivers (I have win xp!) nin I can calibrate the buffer size, the music jumps me sometimes and feel deceleration.
When I use imac with Pure Music, instead it's all adjust

 

[Kane Williams]

Hi, I have a few days the iFi nano ISDC and would like to know if it is better to use the coaxial connection instead of analog. also with foobar 2000 and asio drivers (I have win xp!) nin I can calibrate the buffer size, the music jumps me sometimes and feel deceleration.
When I use imac with Pure Music, instead it's all adjust

If you use the coax output you are using the Nano as a USB to SPDIF converter. If you use the analogue outs, you are using the Nano as a DAC.

 

[aemme]

so it would be migliire to aacolto the uacita optics?

 

[FYL941]

Running Tidal with pm-2 off the dsd nano

 

[Marso]

I am very inreressted in the iDSD nano, but I have one last question.
I use Windows and need to hear 2sources mixed by Windows (play music and talk in Skype for example) at the same time.

So does this work with the driver for Windows ? Or is it like many other asio based and only one programm can output sound at time and the other programs are muted?

Thanks.

 

[iFi audio]

I am very inreressted in the iDSD nano, but I have one last question.
I use Windows and need to hear 2sources mixed by Windows (play music and talk in Skype for example) at the same time.

So does this work with the driver for Windows ? Or is it like many other asio based and only one programm can output sound at time and the other programs are muted?

Thanks.

 
Hi,
 
To asnwer your Win question:
 
1) Yes it needs a driver for Windows.
 
2) No, you cannot mix different sound subsystem streams, this is a fundamental limitation of Windows, you cannot WASAPI exclusive or ASIO streams with MME (MultiMediaExtensions) etc. streams.
 
Common Windows software uses MME for sound. To mix sounds within Windows the playback software needs to be set to play via MME and the settings for "shared mode"  must be made suitably.
 
Then music and for example Skype can be mixed.
 
Of course in order for all of this to work there has be a mixing of audio streams, so the result is no longer bitperfect and DSD cannot be supported.
 
Cheers.

 

[pokenguyen]

I am very inreressted in the iDSD nano, but I have one last question.
I use Windows and need to hear 2sources mixed by Windows (play music and talk in Skype for example) at the same time.

So does this work with the driver for Windows ? Or is it like many other asio based and only one programm can output sound at time and the other programs are muted?

Thanks.

It works like your normal onboard audio card, nothing special.

 

[Marso]

ok thanks, i know that the result is no longer bit perfect after mixing. If i want Enjoy music and nothing other i will use foobar200 + wasapi, but i hate i too switch plugs the whole time if i want talk to my firends.
 
So i´m going to be a iDSD nano owner soon

 

[Kane Williams]

Does the Nano support 32 bit floating point data, as that is how Coppertino say delivers data to a DAC if the DAC supports it. It seems DoP may not be ever be possible with Vox, although they are trying to figure it out.