i hooked up the CCA last night but using only the stock 3.5mm analog cable. id say the internal DAC is sufficient. tonight ill be using a Toshiba toslink going into musical fidelity DAC and tube buffer...i sure hope for an improvement from last night's....although im already happy as it is already.
the only pending action for me now is to configure the phone as the music server and as usual, i am going to need guidance from members here with more experience on this.
thanks for the help peeps.
IMHO Madaming options for making your phone as server.
1. Bubble Upnp (paid), Android only
2. Linn Kazoo (free)
3. Ipeng (paid)
Headfi setup ba ito? Hndi kasi magndang DNLA server ang phone. Baka magkaroon ng latency @ your end when u cast it via wifi, LAN or bluetooth.
Try using a powerful PC for managing your song and use your phone as UPnP renderer. Mas mgnda ang performance nya. Powerful PC will provide a robust database performance.
If you opt for PC as music server, here are ur choices (Mac, Win, Linux) and like to recycle a not-so-old intel PC. I tried the ff
1. Minimserver (free)
2. Roon core (paid) - excellent remote and indexing ($100/yr and $499/lifetime)
3. Plex Media Server (paid)
4. Soundstage (cheaper alternative to Plex)
5. Squeezelite and Logitech Media Server (free).. it is my prefered free music server
6. Daphile (free).. you can use it as a player however making it a server is a bit tricky
If you like hardcoding or a linux geek
you can try the ff:
1. Gerbera
2. Snappy
.. best part is they are free.. you will do a little voddoo in the linux shell to configure these
If you are on a budget and would like to tinker a little try raspberry pi. I use the ff:
1. Picoreplayer (free). I configure this RPi as a Samba Server as well as built in Logitech Media Server
2. Volumio (free). You can activate LMS plugin and you can point any storage device and HDD as your musuc storage.
Just name your poison.