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In Reply to: RE: Android Powered USB DAC...Game Changer? posted by jaydacus on April 09, 2016 at 08:43:35
Curious Jay, are you intending to use the phone as your main music player or are you using it as a portable player with headphones?
If you're using it in the sound room for playback (to speakers), then wouldn't you be limited in storage space? Or are you setting it up as some kind of DLNA streamer and communicating wirelessly?
Personally, I see a Win/Mac machine as having a different role than Android phones...
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I have the phone connected directly to a USB DAC using an OTG cable which allows the phone to host the DAC. Storage is currently limited to the capacity of the phone memory which falls short of my FLAC collection of 200GB. I'm probably going to try a powered USB hub and add a USB hard drive to the mix. May pull back if SQ changes and I expect to run into problems with music apps actually seeing the contents of the hard drive, not dropping etc.
The exact device and OS version does not seem to matter. The sound is identical on my Galaxy S6 and LG tablet. The S6 just got Marshmallow and the tablet has Lollipop. The USB DAC is a Hot Audio DAC WOW. Not all that high end I know, but not what I am testing here.
The S6 just got Marshmallow and the tablet has Lollipop. The USB DAC is a Hot Audio DAC WOW. Not all that high end I know, but not what I am testing here.
What a combo. I bet if you listen closely the S6 on Marshmallow will sound softer and creamier while the tablet on Lollipop will produce a sweeter sound. The Hot Audio DAC WOW should add a bit of bite and snap. Enjoy.
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