Hello,
Assuming I have separate DAC, and I just want to play songs from iPad by Airplay feature.
(Playing songs from iPhone local files, not streaming services)
In this case, I need a streamer to receive music from my iPad -> DAC.
What’s the point of high price streamer? I’m bit surprised that some streamers are very high priced.
(For reference, I understand high priced DAC, at least it colors sound in certain ways, and if one likes it, so be it.
But in case of Streamer, streamer itself is neutral and no room for coloring the music... as far as I understand?)
So, from my understanding, there should be no sound quality difference, as long as it delivers.
(Streaming reliability and build quality, I can see it but I do not see advantages in terms of sound quality.)
Again, I totally understand better casing, design factor, brand name and such. But some of them kind of say there is sound quality difference between streamers.
But my question is more about the situation once the price point pass certain points like
BlueSound node2i vs $5-6K vs $20k+
One of responses I receive from Importer is “more powerful streamers present the dac with a better cleaner data packet which produces audible improvements”.
I don’t know. I need to research more on this claim. If this claim were right, then it’s like my Router should have some impacts on sound quality too?
Am I missing something? If so, please share some wisdom.
PS if it‘s about the brand name / design factor, I also understand. It can be $1mil why not. I’m taking about technical aspect of sound quality.
Assuming I have separate DAC, and I just want to play songs from iPad by Airplay feature.
(Playing songs from iPhone local files, not streaming services)
In this case, I need a streamer to receive music from my iPad -> DAC.
What’s the point of high price streamer? I’m bit surprised that some streamers are very high priced.
(For reference, I understand high priced DAC, at least it colors sound in certain ways, and if one likes it, so be it.
But in case of Streamer, streamer itself is neutral and no room for coloring the music... as far as I understand?)
So, from my understanding, there should be no sound quality difference, as long as it delivers.
(Streaming reliability and build quality, I can see it but I do not see advantages in terms of sound quality.)
Again, I totally understand better casing, design factor, brand name and such. But some of them kind of say there is sound quality difference between streamers.
But my question is more about the situation once the price point pass certain points like
BlueSound node2i vs $5-6K vs $20k+
One of responses I receive from Importer is “more powerful streamers present the dac with a better cleaner data packet which produces audible improvements”.
I don’t know. I need to research more on this claim. If this claim were right, then it’s like my Router should have some impacts on sound quality too?
Am I missing something? If so, please share some wisdom.
PS if it‘s about the brand name / design factor, I also understand. It can be $1mil why not. I’m taking about technical aspect of sound quality.