An idiots guide

[Flatty]

I love music, but take it for granted I'm thick as a ditch. I currently have a reasonable dac running into an edge g3 and I'm about to swap out a pair of waterfall audio victoria evos (for sale) for some very high end speakers.
I only want to stream music from my phone as I haven't the energy for messing around with a laptop or computer, or from a dedicated stream in device. I started to try and research it but got a full head reading about MAC (I think) unfolding and gave up.
Can anyone recommend a good, easy to use, digital streaming thing. All I want is to use WiFi or Bluetooth and my phone or a device I can plug into the dac or the amp.
I'd be really grateful for any help.
Dan

[Stratmangler]

There's lots of ways of skinning a cat.
What do you want to stream?

[Puffin]

I have a Chromecast and stream with that, however I have a Microsoft Zune (MP3 player) with hundreds of tracks on it so I use the h/phone out, into a balanced DTI, into a balanced Dac and out again and it sounds great to my buggered lugs.

[struth]

chromecast is cheap for wireless transmission. a mini toslink to toslink cable will connect to your dac and you should be able to cast stuff from phone

[AJSki2fly]

Can anyone recommend a good, easy to use, digital streaming thing. All I want is to use WiFi or Bluetooth and my phone or a device I can plug into the dac or the amp.
I'd be really grateful for any help.
Dan

Be careful streaming music from your phone as the quality could be poor if the music is compressed already or you stream from a poor source(iTunes to name one), this IMO would completely negate you have high and DAC, amp and speakers. The usual adage is put rubbish in get rubbish out.

Have a look at https://roonlabs.com/partners.html. I personally don't use Roon but the have many good and high end partners that have streaming devices you can control from a mobile device.

Another option is simple and not expensive and you can see if you like it, quite a few on here do similar to this. By a RaspberryPi and a HiBerry S/PDIF card set it up with Volumio(software) and subscribe to Tidal and/or Qobuz for streaming hi-res music, if you have digital music in an iTunes library then Volumio can use this as well. Volumio runs on the RaspberryPi as a server and this is where the music is processed. I do this and also us Audirvana on a MacBook for hi-Res music as it enables you to upscale the quality a bit.

Have a look at https://volumio.org, they have recently put up a new streaming player which is not expensive but looks good, alternatively have look at

I hope this helps, there are a myriad of products out there. But be careful you can spend a lot of money for not very much, I know of a product that is basically RaspberyPi with a DAC card in a pretty box that is sold for over £1k, you could buy the equivalent or better for couple of hundred.

[Macca]

I'm intrigued as to why you have started 2 threads about exactly the same thing.

By the powers invested in me by the interweb I have merged them.

[Stratmangler]

By the powers invested in me by the interweb I have merged them.

By the scant powers invested in me I have deleted my post from the second thread.

[Stratmangler]

Back to Dan's question.

There's lots of ways of skinning a cat.
What do you want to stream?

Put another way, are you using a content provider (Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz or suchlike), or do you have a shedload of local files that you want to have playing through your rig?

[Stryder5]

chromecast is cheap for wireless transmission. a mini toslink to toslink cable will connect to your dac and you should be able to cast stuff from phone

+1, Chromecast Audio simple to use, I guess it depends on definition but it casts the content of your chosen media supplier ( Spotify etc ) but is passive, as the contact is direct by wifi from your router, your phone, pad etc to your DAC and onward.

If you also use Google Mini you get voice control over Chromecast as well.

Gary

[Flatty]

Thanks
I'm using amazon prime and a chrome cast at the minute, but it's poor quality compared to a CD even. The chrome cast is plugged into the dac.
I was going to get tidal as it's apparently better quality, but wondered if there is a single device which I can plug into the amp or the dac I have, which facilitates high quality streaming either from that device, or from my phone. I generally only play my playlists, which I'll have to start from scratch. Money isn't too tight at the minute, so I'm prepared to pay a bit.