Streaming Radio Stations, Classical, Suggestions?

[Panelhead]

I like playing internet radio streams from a tablet or phone. Never could get most streams with FLAC files to play or play well using BT from iPad or iPhone to a WiiM Mini. Wanted to buy a WiiM Pro or something like.
Read that Android was answer. Was told that this was an urban legend. No lossless over BT.
Figured out I needed LDAC codec to stream Lossless over BT. Bought an eighty dollar Android tablet with BT5.4 last night from Amazon. Connected straight to a SMSL RAW- MDA1 this morning. Came up showing LDAC codec by default. Was streaming FLAC radio stations in 15 minutes.
The tablet shows WiFi data rate. The 896K FLAC streams run at 5 times what 320MP3 streams run at.
Sound seems better, need to look for a Classical station that has FLAC and 320K MP3 streams to get a handle on sonic comparision. Seems to me the 320K streams sound better over LDAC codec than they do over AAC already.
But FLAC over LDAC sounds very good.
I thought the WiiM Mini was a steal at 89.00. The Android tablet kicks major butt.

 

[Timcognito]

I like playing internet radio streams from a tablet or phone. Never could get most streams with FLAC files to play or play well using BT from iPad or iPhone to a WiiM Mini. Wanted to buy a WiiM Pro or something like.
Read that Android was answer. Was told that this was an urban legend. No lossless over BT.
Figured out I needed LDAC codec to stream Lossless over BT. Bought an eighty dollar Android tablet with BT5.4 last night from Amazon. Connected straight to a SMSL RAW- MDA1 this morning. Came up showing LDAC codec by default. Was streaming FLAC radio stations in 15 minutes.
The tablet shows WiFi data rate. The 896K FLAC streams run at 5 times what 320MP3 streams run at.
Sound seems better, need to look for a Classical station that has FLAC and 320K MP3 streams to get a handle on sonic comparision. Seems to me the 320K streams sound better over LDAC codec than they do over AAC already.
But FLAC over LDAC sounds very good.
I thought the WiiM Mini was a steal at 89.00. The Android tablet kicks major butt.

Now strip every unused app off of it. Mine only has music apps and the internet. Also read reviews on inexpensive DAC dongles, sound will improve for plug in HP/IEM as cheap tablets have poor DAC implementation.

 

[Panelhead]

They are all unused. Have a SMSL RAW-MDA1 it is connected to. Using LDAC to connect. Tablet is connected to fiber WiFi.
Will go strip all the junk. The Octo-Core processor may choke sometimes with all the junk that comes loaded.