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In Reply to: RE: iPad and external DACs posted by soundchekk on August 17, 2012 at 01:57:52
I don't know the answer to your question but I have a question of my own.
Do you actually plan to use the iPad with an external DAC?
How many people actually walk around with an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or other similar device with an external DAC and cable hanging off it? Just a question. Not meant to be insulting. I can't imagine this scenario for most users.
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The idea might not be to walk about with a Dac hanging off a iPad but to instead dock the iPad into a Dac while at home.
Some people might prefer to use a traditional computer [keyboard, mouse etc] while at home...
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Here is a Dac that hangs off my iTouch
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Good observations. I don't see that an iPad is a good place to store a music collection either.
Something new to tinker with.
Bill
For most folks on this forum, I would agree..... iPad (or any tablet) is probably not the best place to store your music collection for your main audio system. And if you store music on it for portable use, I can't see hanging a DAC and cables from it.
I tried the iPod + digital dock + DAC setup in my main audio system for a couple months then decided it made better sense to set up a more flexible music server instead. The iPod, iPhone, iPad, or Android device would then be used as a remote control only.
iPhone Remote Control for music server
There are many people who have high quality audio systems in their vehicle. Some people might want to take their iPad in the vehicle and have it output digital audio to a better DAC.
Many people have second systems or headphone systems set up for music playback. Some of these people might want to have an iPad with music on it to plug into a DAC for better sound quality.
As cool as my iPad is, it never leaves the house. I use it to control the Sonos system and experimented with it to see if I could use it as a source to feed various DACs with the same dismal results. Will play with the powered USB hub idea. If it works, that would be an acceptable hack.
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How many people actually walk around with an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or other similar device with an external DAC and cable hanging off it?
You might not understand this Abe but some people just care about sound quality and not how "cool" something is....
I certainly would hang all kinds of cables off my ipad if it would sound better than my main rig doing so.
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