Raspberry pi 4 with Roopiee XL (AirPlay, roon, NAA etc).
I use it to cast audio from a iPad to my headphone setup to watch movies In the evening.
But why not just connect a iPad with usb directly to a DAC if all that is required is apple music?
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For wireless I don’t want to build a pi, and Jay’s Iyagi said it doesn’t sound as good.
For wired hires lossless, i currently use my iphone12proMax with the apple lightning-to-usbCamera adapter but it will eventually have dropouts due to the wire being bent due to usage.
but at $15 used to $30 new versus a $400 Ifi zen streamer, i could replace 14 lightning-to-usb dongles and have Hires lossless.
currently my wireless streamer is the Apple airport express (airplay2) via optical into the Denafrips Ares II 12th, and i cant hear a difference compared to wired USB using the lightning-to-usbCamera dongle.
I found some great streamers with airplay2 and i2S port.
3 youtubers have said that the Ares II 12th with the Denafrips Iris (a DDC) via i2S port significantly improved sound quality to match the higher model Denafrips Pontus in all facets except details (the Pontus has 4 rows of r2r versus 2 rows in the Ares II 12th).
If a streamer has i2S, then i don’t need the Iris to convert usb to i2S.
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