Naim DAC - using Plugplayer and iPhone/Touch as streamer
Posted by: likesmusic on 12 July 2010
The white paper on the Naim DAC says:
UPnP: iPod touch/iPhone – lossless files played using PlugPlayer are bit-perfect
As I understand it, this means you could connect a touch or Iphone running PlugPlayer confingured as a media renderer to the Naim DAC via USB and stream to it from a UPnP Server, like Twonky.
Has anyone done this?
Any opinions as to sound quality?
Posted on: 12 July 2010 by pcstockton
I have tried it with my iPhone using PlugPlayer fed by Foobar in another room.
It worked and sounded fine. But without hidef support and the lack (for now) of a way to control the iPhone (until my iPhone 4 arrives this week) remotely, it is not for me.
It took some figuring to get things set up correctly so I wasn't transcoding to mp3, and get album art streaming, but it wasn't too difficult.
I have no idea how to do this on a Mac/iTunes.
It couldn't be easier on Foobar.
-Patrick
Posted on: 12 July 2010 by David Dever
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But without hidef support
Works fine here - kinda handy if you have an iPad running PlugPlayer as a UPnP control point and a spare iPhone or iPod touch around to serve as the renderer.
Sound quality isn't bad, but there are better alternatives (I know nothing about the software rendering or buffer size, etc. within the app). M3U playlist loading is not yet supported, as well.
Posted on: 12 July 2010 by likesmusic
Cheers Patrick. I happen to have a apple Touch in any case; I bought PlugPlayer as for £3 it hardly breaks the bank. I downloaded Twonky for nothing and I can now listen to all my FLACs or whatever on my Touch when I'm in the house - seems ok, though only for stuff where gaplessness isn't an issue. Definitely worth the £3.
I was wondering that if you have a NAIM DAC the sound quality shouldn't be pretty good, since the data stays digital all the way to the DAC, rather than getting converted into S/PDIF.
P.S. At what end of things did you have to stop transcoding - Foobar or PlugPlayer? I can't see any settings in PlugPlayer or Twonky to make transcoding happen in the first place.
Posted on: 12 July 2010 by likesmusic
quote:
Originally posted by David Dever:
Sound quality isn't bad, but there are better alternatives
What would the better alternatives be?
