![]() ![]() Quite a few will also play music files stored on computers connected to your home network but setting up this function can be a little tricky. Some streaming DACs have USB ports for connecting a portable drive loaded with music, and some let you play music stored on the device that’s running the app. You can also play locally stored music, such as files purchased from download sites or ripped from your own CDs, through your streaming DAC. The next step is to log on to the service in your streamer’s app, after which you can use the app to cue up music and play it through your hi-fi. Streaming services operate on a subscription basis, and you should be able to set up a trial subscription for a number of them from the app for your streaming DAC but you might have to do this from a service’s website. The apps for most streamers have integrated support for popular streaming services, including some that offer lossless CD-resolution and hi-rez audio, such as Tidal and Qobuz. Connect the device to a set of RCA analog inputs on your amplifier, install the companion app on a smartphone or tablet, join the streaming DAC to your home network, and you’re ready to go. ![]() Streaming DACs combine two components: a network streamer that can pull digital music from online subscription services and a digital-to-analog converter that converts those bitstreams to a line-level analog signal. Here’s a quick 101-level primer for those folks. This is familiar territory for most Simplifi readers, but vintage-audio enthusiasts who have relied on packaged media for their musical entertainment may face a bit of a learning curve. It’s easy to add 21st-century capabilities to these 20th-century classics: all it takes is a streaming DAC. What’s not to like about a big walnut-clad stereo receiver from the 1970s or ’80s, with more dials and lights than the bridge of the Starship Enterprise? Or a simple hand-built tube amplifier from the 1960s? With a little TLC, these classics can keep playing music for decades. It’s not hard to understand the appeal of this corner of our hobby. But there is a large group of hobbyists out there whose passion is restoring and using vintage audio components, and there are lots of websites and stores (online and bricks-and-mortar) that cater to them. No surprise: the focus of the SoundStage! Network is on new audio gear. Across the SoundStage! Network, you’ll find coverage of all kinds of audio products: high-end gear on SoundStage! Ultra, affordable components on SoundStage! Access, headphones and accessories on SoundStage! Solo, lifestyle audio here on SoundStage! Simplifi, portable Bluetooth speakers on SoundStage! Xperience, news and events on SoundStage! Global, and all manner of gear on the mothership- SoundStage! Hi-Fi.Ī subject you won’t see covered on any of the SoundStage! sites is vintage audio. ![]()
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