Amazon Music streaming via SuperUniti?

You can plug an iPhone/iPad into the front panel USB socket, and you should be able to play it. Alternatively, if you want to do it over WiFi, put an Airport Express near the SU and connect them with an optical cable. Then you can play wirelessly, assuming Amazon Music supports Apple Airplay, which I would assume it does if you can play it on an iPhone.

No, you can not use the USB socket. This is not a USB DAC input that can take digital audio data from the Lightning port. The USB/iPod function only supports audio data contained in the device file system, e.g. anything shown in the iOS Music app.

If you have the most recent version of the SU, it sports a Bluetooth audio input which works with any iOS audio application.

If not, apart from the AirPort Express mentioned above, I would recommend either an old Apple TV (3rd gen, not produced any more, but available cheap used – and it has a S/PDIF port) as an AirPlay renderer, or an external Bluetooth audio receiver (like an ARCAM miniBlink).

Or you could use the front analog input (3,5mm TRS socket) with a suitable cable to directly connect the device. Given it is not an iPhone 7 where for some reason Apple removed the headphone jack.

Or I would recommend a Sonos Connect transport and connect via SPDIF to your SuperUniti.. that way you will have Tidal, Qobuz, Amazon, Napster, Soundcloud plus a whole lot more.

S

Simon-in-Suffolk, I'm trying to figure out the topology for the PC-to-SU portion. It's easy enough to use an optical cable to connect the Sonos optical out to the SU digital in; but how to connect the PC *especially if a laptop* to the Sonos? I'd like to be able to control Tidal to SU from a desktop at times and not always from the iPhone. This would also let me play with the MQA versions, but I don't really see how I can get quality sound out of the PC.....am I missing something?

ChrisSU has given great advice. There is a small operating trick to use non-local iMusic content from your iPhone or iPod via the SU front panel USB: plug in, select any local song for play eg via the IR remote, then navigate on the iPhone screen to Tidal or Amazon  or whatever and select other material from there. 

Regards alan

alan33 posted:

ChrisSU has given great advice. There is a small operating trick to use non-local iMusic content from your iPhone or iPod via the SU front panel USB: plug in, select any local song for play eg via the IR remote, then navigate on the iPhone screen to Tidal or Amazon  or whatever and select other material from there.

I'm guessing that the flaw in this suggestion is that 'the kids' will probably freak out if they are parted from their iPhones for more than a few seconds, so the wired connection might be rejected as uncool. That's why I thought an Airport Express might be a good cheap alternative, although Simon's suggestion of a Sonos Connect might be worth spending a bit of extra cash on.

alan33 posted:

ChrisSU has given great advice. There is a small operating trick to use non-local iMusic content from your iPhone or iPod via the SU front panel USB: plug in, select any local song for play eg via the IR remote, then navigate on the iPhone screen to Tidal or Amazon  or whatever and select other material from there. 

Regards alan

Wow. Thats both weird and fantastic. Thanks for the info.

Cheers G.