Streaming for those who dont really care
Nov 12, 2022 14:31:07 GMT
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Post by ant on Nov 12, 2022 14:31:07 GMT
My daughter has been mithering for spotify premium for ages.
I finally caved in and agreed, so i thought if im the one paying for it id like some use out of it myself.
So, how to use it with no outlay for equipment.
Well, i have an old topping e30 dac that i just use along with a laptop to do speaker measurements. I use it in conjunction with a behringer interface and rew, its basically just to output pink noise and sweep tones.
I also have a basic 2020 alcatel tablet running android 10 that is very very rarely used as it was bought for the kids to use so they could all access teams during lockdown. One used the pc, one the laptop and this had to be bought so the other one could get on teams at the same time as they could....
Its seen very little use since.
So i dug both out, did some faffing in the developer options to get the tablet to send audio out of the usb-c port which allowed the dac to see it, and put spotify on it.
The dac cant see it until there is a song playing so it throws an err message on the screen and goes to sleep, but as soon as the song starts it wakes up and plays so it works fine.
The dac displays the bitrate as 96khz so it looks like the tablet is upsampling whatever the spotify bitrate is. Interestingly, i did the same faffing in developer options to get my phone (galaxy note 9) to output audio via usb and with the phone connected it shows 192khz.
I also connected the cyrus cd player to the dac via coax as i dont have enough inputs on the pass b1 pre to use both at the same time. The topping is a nice dac, i originally bought it to use with the delta 170.3 transport i had.
So streaming via a tablet and dac cost me nothing and is perfectly acceptable.
I finally caved in and agreed, so i thought if im the one paying for it id like some use out of it myself.
So, how to use it with no outlay for equipment.
Well, i have an old topping e30 dac that i just use along with a laptop to do speaker measurements. I use it in conjunction with a behringer interface and rew, its basically just to output pink noise and sweep tones.
I also have a basic 2020 alcatel tablet running android 10 that is very very rarely used as it was bought for the kids to use so they could all access teams during lockdown. One used the pc, one the laptop and this had to be bought so the other one could get on teams at the same time as they could....
Its seen very little use since.
So i dug both out, did some faffing in the developer options to get the tablet to send audio out of the usb-c port which allowed the dac to see it, and put spotify on it.
The dac cant see it until there is a song playing so it throws an err message on the screen and goes to sleep, but as soon as the song starts it wakes up and plays so it works fine.
The dac displays the bitrate as 96khz so it looks like the tablet is upsampling whatever the spotify bitrate is. Interestingly, i did the same faffing in developer options to get my phone (galaxy note 9) to output audio via usb and with the phone connected it shows 192khz.
I also connected the cyrus cd player to the dac via coax as i dont have enough inputs on the pass b1 pre to use both at the same time. The topping is a nice dac, i originally bought it to use with the delta 170.3 transport i had.
So streaming via a tablet and dac cost me nothing and is perfectly acceptable.
