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    compression.
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    they may have changed their ways tho. check in settings advanced and set it for high.
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    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
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    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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    Quote Originally Posted by Audio Al View Post
    Whats a bitrate
    https://techterms.com/definition/bitrate

    CD spec is 1411 Kbps
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    Or the official exchange value for bitcoins!


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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    yeah, but that is only a DAC ... OP want's a streamer + DAC (ps, that DAC is pretty outdated)

    ps. this page gives some info on a cheap but very good streamer / DAC combinations

    https://www.allo.com/network-audio-player.html
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    Thanks all, I'm interested in a slightly higher quality streamer that I can buy second hand, any to look out for? Also if I had an old SOny amp (or other brand) from the 90s, with a DAC, would that work or does it need something more up to date?

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    All streamers are essentially computers, albeit very small footprint ones, that render data to give sound.
    The least expensive route into it would be a Raspberry Pi.
    There is one serious drawback to this route - if you're not particularly IT literate you're fairly dependent on knowing someone who is.

    Yes, it's possible for someone to send you a preconfigured piece of kit, but unless they're relatively local to you there is the problem of any IT issues that will arise, and trust me on this one, issues will arise sooner or later.

    The simplest route into streaming media is yer good old laptop, because it's the interface you're most comfortable with.
    As soon as you move over to running headless rendering devices you're in at the deep end.

    I had a Raspberry Pi 3 starter kit delivered just last week, and it took me all of about 10 minutes to throw it together, and get some functionality out of it, but it also took a fair bit of head scratching and cursing to get it to do all I expected, and a good few hours disappeared in the process.

    I now have a RasPi3 doing performing serving duties, but can also perform the rendering task too, and can be controlled from a web browser on any computer in the house, and also by a controller app on my Smartphone.

    At this stage I recommend getting to grips with what you can accomplish with your laptop.
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    Quote Originally Posted by r100 View Post
    yeah, but that is only a DAC ... OP want's a streamer + DAC (ps, that DAC is pretty outdated)

    ps. this page gives some info on a cheap but very good streamer / DAC combinations

    https://www.allo.com/network-audio-player.html
    It's all he needs and on budget. He has a laptop. It's a very good dac
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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    The bitrate for Prime Music is 320kbps MP3 is this any good ?
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