Thread: Hi Fi Component for Wireless Audio etc

Originally Posted by Homestar

That's very similar to what I have on my Marantz unit but my old NAD pre amp is waaaaaay before HDMI was ever thought of so need RCA output.

Thats not a HDMI port its a USB port for charging the internal battery. It has a 3.5mm stereo plug input/output. I just use a lead from this that has a 3.5mm plug on one end and RCA on the other.

Use Apple Airport to broadcast via wi-fi to either the amp in the house (early 80's Luxman) or to the amp in the shed, 60 metres away, or both. I can do that from music files on any computer or the phone in my pocket. I also have control of volume.
Don.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I have 2 on the way.

I will no longer have to listen to radio in the garage, I can hook this up to my sound system in there and stream from my iPhone.

I can't stand advertising (no, I can't stand Triple J so I don't listen to it, either).

That’s the only station I do listen to. Have been for 30 years. I’m hardly the target demographic any more, but I still like the music they play compared to the commercial stations top 40 rubbish.

On the weekends I’ll have 2 or 3 radios on at once all tuned into the J’s - One in the garage, one or 2 elsewhere in the house so I can hear it everywhere I go. 👍

I used to listen to Double J when it first started (remember Lex Marinos?) but these days I can't stand their announcers nor a lot of their music.

I have come up with an interim alternative. I hooked a Samsung tablet up through the 3.5mm jack and into the Phono in at the back of the amp. Works OK but the sound is a bit muddy - no higher and not a lot of mid range sound through the speakers.

Amp is a Yamaha RX-V660. Speakers are JBL TLX-18's.

Could it be the tablet doesn't have enough power to send an accurate signal to an amp or is the Phono (CD input too for that matter) processing the input differently.

I can get OK sound but the bass is wound right back and the treble way up.

MP3’s or whatever the latest compressed audio codec is will never get the same amount of dynamic range as uncompressed media like records or CD’s. I did some tests on mine and playing the exact same song through the same system - one from CD and one from my tablet through the Bluetooth and the sound is chalk and cheese - we get used to hearing the muck we are listening to that we download and it simply doesn’t sound as good - you don’t need to be an audiophile to notice it. When you go back to uncompressed sources you notice a huge difference. I only did the other week for the first time in ages as I dragged my old system out and got it running - playing a CD through it sounds bloody brilliant in comparison to any streamed stuff through any of my systems or devices, and it it isn't a high end system either - all stuff from the 80's or earlier.

First pic is the streamed file, second is a CD of the same song at the same point. Don't need to be a rocket scientist to see - or hear the difference.

Originally Posted by Homestar

MP3’s or whatever the latest compressed audio codec is will never get the same amount of dynamic range as uncompressed media like records or CD’s.

I think you hit the nail on the head.

Yeah, since the other weekend I’ve dusted all my CD’s off and have been playing them. My Son popped over the other day and I was playing one - he even said that sounded brilliant but did proceed to tell me I’m still an old fart...