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No, no other settings Grant just the internal speakers or an output to the dac, MacBook Pros are pretty easy to use settings wise so you can't really go wrong.
I think optical will be better for me and more convenient but I'd have to buy a longer cable cause I use the MBP all of the time when I'm in the lounge and the hi-fi is at the opposite side of the room but I can airplay to the ATV and do that way, loads of options, I downloaded the Paradise Radio apps for the ATV and my phone, works beautifully with both. Great radio station that BTW.
Location: Glasgow, UK
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I'm Tony.
Location: KY - Scotland
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I'm Mike.
Location: KY - Scotland
Posts: 5,465
I'm Mike.
Location: KY - Scotland
Posts: 5,465
I'm Mike.
Mind you I see the Tidal Hifi family sub is $29.99 which is only £8 more than I'm paying for the Spotify family sub.
I have a US Tidal account so I might try it out again and see if I can convert the kids
Tried a trial account with Qobuz' hifi service recently and although I was impressed by the sound quality, I found two issues which put me off pretty quickly. 1. The IOS app is a pain in the arse, sluggish and seems to be a resource hog. 2. The number of albums which were not available for streaming! No. 2 was the biggest surprise, and it always seemed to be the albums I was most keen hearing in CD quality too. :-)
I'm happy to pay the better part of £30 pm if I know that the majority of the music I want to stream is available, but if they can't guarantee at least 80% then I'm going to stick to what I'm doing now.. paying £9.99pm for Spotify Premium as a 'scouting' service (as it's catalogue seems the most comprehensive so far), then buy second-hand CDs and rip FLAC files to my NAS box locally (with the additional benefit of having 'backup media' I can store in a wallet).
This process is as really quite straightforward and doesn't really involve too much faffing about once it's up and running.
- PC (In my case a Macbook Pro) is used to manage the media library and rip FLAC files via WiFi to the NAS (Network Attached Storage)
- NAS sits attached by wire to the both the router and the RPi/DAC
- RPi/DAC - connected to Amplifier
The RPi/DAC in this case is an Allo BOSS - bought as a plug and play solution directly from Allo with Volumio2 preinstalled! The only pain involved was giving it an IP Address and linking it to the NAS media (all of which is well documented).
If you want to make it simpler, just put some FLAC files on a USB drive, plug it into the RPi/Allo Boss running Volumio and off you go...
A mainly digital setup with a musical amplifier and endearing 1970's speakers. A CD player that hardly ever gets used and a turntable that is good enough to remind my how enjoyable my old vinyl is. Some cables and things.
seemed a bit french on web page so decided not to take trial. Spotify premium and Deezer hifi are my 2 favorites
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Location: KY - Scotland
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I'm Mike.