Abstraction
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I am not sure where this post goes. I am using my IPhone with a camera connection kit to get an usb input to a Mytek Brooklyn and HD800 by my bed. This sounds remarkably good, but I would like to have something that has more storage and that I could leave hooked up most of the time. It would have to small like a DAP--although not necessarily a DAP, have large storage capacity, and an digital output. The Brooklyn has all of the normal digital jacks.
I could--I suppose--use a Raspberry, and this would might advantages, but just the DAC and the associated wires are already messy.
The FiiO X5 looks like one possibility. With 500+ gb storage, it would hold a lot of music in a lossless format, and if it can give a good solid digital out and an interface that is all I need, but I do not keep up with the gear scene much. I like to get a good sounding setup and forget about it. (I have a wonderful Leben amp, but, for example, I recently had to look to make sure I knew exactly the right model number.) I really don't like gear, I like great music.
So I want to tap into the reservoir of expertise here. Let me know what you have tried, what the best ways to make connections are (cables and so forth; I'm guessing adapters might be a sometime difficult iissue). I am almost completely ignorant of this stuff. I know there are some expensive daps called Askell and something I think, that have digital outputs.The IPod Touch has a wifi (right?), then I could also stream Tidal. The resources are not unlimited, but what is possible? I am not interest in a solution for luxury. Value is important.Thanks in advance.
I could--I suppose--use a Raspberry, and this would might advantages, but just the DAC and the associated wires are already messy.
The FiiO X5 looks like one possibility. With 500+ gb storage, it would hold a lot of music in a lossless format, and if it can give a good solid digital out and an interface that is all I need, but I do not keep up with the gear scene much. I like to get a good sounding setup and forget about it. (I have a wonderful Leben amp, but, for example, I recently had to look to make sure I knew exactly the right model number.) I really don't like gear, I like great music.
So I want to tap into the reservoir of expertise here. Let me know what you have tried, what the best ways to make connections are (cables and so forth; I'm guessing adapters might be a sometime difficult iissue). I am almost completely ignorant of this stuff. I know there are some expensive daps called Askell and something I think, that have digital outputs.The IPod Touch has a wifi (right?), then I could also stream Tidal. The resources are not unlimited, but what is possible? I am not interest in a solution for luxury. Value is important.Thanks in advance.
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