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03-22-2020, 10:25 AM #51one of those sickos
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Denon and many other receivers will connect to your network (wifi or Ethernet) and will pull streams down directly, using their own DAC. You can also stream to them with Plex via your Nvidia Shield if you have a bunch of high bitrate tracks stored on your computer (or phone, I suppose.) I bet those receivers would also just output a digital signal to whatever pre you like.
We have an old Android phone that just acts as a control for Spotify. Once we push play, the receiver does the actual streaming bc the phone is just an interface. It's quite slick. It seems to me that physically connecting a phone is a kluge.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T707A using TGR Forums mobile appLast edited by climberevan; 03-22-2020 at 10:50 AM.
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03-22-2020, 10:44 AM #52
True, I could do that with a newer receiver, but that would defeat the purpose of using cool old school stuff. And cheap. The most expensive piece in the setup right now stack is $75 excluding speakers. I'm into those about $300 at this point. (Have you seen my collection of cars? Old school and cheap. And cool if I do say so myself.)
However, you do trigger a thought. I should be able to control spotify on my tv with my phone, and that is already sending an optical spdif signal to the pre amp. I will try that today at some point.
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03-22-2020, 04:56 PM #53
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