Recommendations for high quality Streaming Audio:


Greetings everyone; looking for recommendations on how to stream high quality audio, let me explain.

I currently use my Apple 8S phone, with a high quality aux cord, into my preamp. This method has better sound quality than when I use a blue-tooth adapter and stream from my phone, but I enjoy being able to stay seated and having control of what I want to listen to.

Anything out there that gives the user remote control / access to what they want to listen to?

If not, I'll settle fort he next best thing, being plugged into my preamp, and having high quality audio without wireless control

Budget: $1,000 for equipment, $25 per month for streaming service.

I don’t know much about DAC’s , streamers, etc.. or alternative music streaming sites, but I do know that there are better options out there from what I’ve read on these forums.

Thanks in advance for the forthcoming enlightenment.

Rene

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Showing 1 response by jrwaudio

At the moment I don't have a laptop and I would have to run a network cable 30 feet across the floor to my music room, not good. So I would also like to just plug in my S10 phone into a streamer or DAC to play music. 

I've been looking at the Innuos MK III
it's a music streamer, DAC and also rips CD's to flac and downloads them to its internal 1 TB storage (upgradeable) HD You can connect your phone via USB and use their APP on your phone to control music files. The price is around $1,200
I went one step further in that I wanted a very high quality DAC to feed my Tube amp, so I went with the Exogal Comet plus non digital DAC
I still have the option of using the Innous DAC 
to send files to my 5.1 AV reciever 

"Innuos has created one of the best control apps in the marketplace making the server/streamer very easy to use for iOS, Android, and Windows users. Roon integration gives users access to Tidal, and Qobuz, with additional support for Internet Radio and Spotify Connect."