McTrucky
Established Member
hi all,
I am confused as to whether investing a few hundred quid in a dedicated streamer will give me any better quality than I have now.
I have a Sony Android TV with Amazon Music HD that feeds my Pioneer SCLX77 amp via ARC (not eARC).
I also have a Firestick4k that plays Amazon Music HD. I may consider an alternative lossless provider if necessary, but I am happy with Amazon. (I also have Deezer which works well, but not the lossless grade - membership came with the car).
Reading a report on the Audiolab 6000N it talks about fantastic sound quallity, then it mentiones that it supports Chromecast. I thought Chromecast supported a lower resolution than lossless Amazon HD, therefore casting to the 6000N would mean a drop in quality no matter how good it was at processing the stream that arrived?
What I want to achieve is an easy to use good sounding solution - happy to use my phone or tablet (both Andriod) which I would prefer to yet another fiddly remote control, happy with no display on the device as it will be on the otherside of the room and unreadable, if there was an HDMI output, would be pleased to see album art etc on the TV, but just as happy with no video output - if control from my tablet/phone was eary. Although I would like some sort of way to identify what resolution the streamer was processing for trouble shooting purposes.
So - is there any benefit 'upgrading' to a seperate or is my Firestick as good as it gets? I presume the Firestic and TVoutput gives digital info to the amp which has twin sabre 32 DACs, and a seperate streamer would use its own internal DAC and have an RCA output to the amp?
Thanks for any input/advice.
I am confused as to whether investing a few hundred quid in a dedicated streamer will give me any better quality than I have now.
I have a Sony Android TV with Amazon Music HD that feeds my Pioneer SCLX77 amp via ARC (not eARC).
I also have a Firestick4k that plays Amazon Music HD. I may consider an alternative lossless provider if necessary, but I am happy with Amazon. (I also have Deezer which works well, but not the lossless grade - membership came with the car).
Reading a report on the Audiolab 6000N it talks about fantastic sound quallity, then it mentiones that it supports Chromecast. I thought Chromecast supported a lower resolution than lossless Amazon HD, therefore casting to the 6000N would mean a drop in quality no matter how good it was at processing the stream that arrived?
What I want to achieve is an easy to use good sounding solution - happy to use my phone or tablet (both Andriod) which I would prefer to yet another fiddly remote control, happy with no display on the device as it will be on the otherside of the room and unreadable, if there was an HDMI output, would be pleased to see album art etc on the TV, but just as happy with no video output - if control from my tablet/phone was eary. Although I would like some sort of way to identify what resolution the streamer was processing for trouble shooting purposes.
So - is there any benefit 'upgrading' to a seperate or is my Firestick as good as it gets? I presume the Firestic and TVoutput gives digital info to the amp which has twin sabre 32 DACs, and a seperate streamer would use its own internal DAC and have an RCA output to the amp?
Thanks for any input/advice.