10-Jun-2017, 23:13
Hello everyone, nice to meet you all.
I am little confused. I am a new and blissful owner of a Phantom Gold connected with an optical cable to a Macbook Pro playing from Tidal. No dialog. I am very new to the audiophile experience ( my only other experience is with a pair of shure 846) and I have trouble trusting my ears sometimes when it comes to perceived difference. I will take you through my basic observations so far.
I have noticed that playing through wi-fi does indeed make me want to tap my feet more than when playing through Bluetooth.
I have also noticed that when playing from airplay (wi-fi) on certain songs like Deadmau5's "Strobe" there's an annoying crackling sound. After a couple of tests and a brief panic attack thinking that I may have accidentally damaged the phantom by transporting to work and home, I came across a helpful thread in this forum.
I have cancelled my spotify subscription and signed up to Tidal which was also an improvement on certain songs.
So I started connecting it with an optical cable. I hate cables and it's one of the reasons I bought this golden egg in the first place but it is what it is I'll wait patiently for Spark 2.0 like everyone else.
I have been using it connected optically to a Apple TV and sometimes to a Apple Airport Express and when I can directly to the macbook pro. With Tidal.
My first question to you people:
Is there any difference between the airport express and apple tv in terms of streaming quality?
Part B of this question:
I use an LG projector connected through HDMI with the apple tv. Should I connect the optical cable to the apple Tv or it doesn't make any difference if I connect it directly to the projector since the HDMI provides a digital connection as well?
Thank you for your patience, I'm getting to the question actually relevant to this thread.
More recently I have started browsing the MQA content on Tidal and what I'm confused about is how to get the best out of it with my resources. I heard that airplay is limited to 16/44. I have given you all this context because I tried connecting the phantom directly to the macbook by optical cable and I have set the Tidal setting to MQA pass through. Is this the best way to connect it? Can the Phantom unfold the MQA content internally?
I'm saving up for a second Golden egg and a Dialog to link them as a stereo system. Can Tidal through spark transmit MQA quality files? Either on the computer or on a phone.
Thank you much for your advice, sorry for the long post.
I am little confused. I am a new and blissful owner of a Phantom Gold connected with an optical cable to a Macbook Pro playing from Tidal. No dialog. I am very new to the audiophile experience ( my only other experience is with a pair of shure 846) and I have trouble trusting my ears sometimes when it comes to perceived difference. I will take you through my basic observations so far.
I have noticed that playing through wi-fi does indeed make me want to tap my feet more than when playing through Bluetooth.
I have also noticed that when playing from airplay (wi-fi) on certain songs like Deadmau5's "Strobe" there's an annoying crackling sound. After a couple of tests and a brief panic attack thinking that I may have accidentally damaged the phantom by transporting to work and home, I came across a helpful thread in this forum.
I have cancelled my spotify subscription and signed up to Tidal which was also an improvement on certain songs.
So I started connecting it with an optical cable. I hate cables and it's one of the reasons I bought this golden egg in the first place but it is what it is I'll wait patiently for Spark 2.0 like everyone else.
I have been using it connected optically to a Apple TV and sometimes to a Apple Airport Express and when I can directly to the macbook pro. With Tidal.
My first question to you people:
Is there any difference between the airport express and apple tv in terms of streaming quality?
Part B of this question:
I use an LG projector connected through HDMI with the apple tv. Should I connect the optical cable to the apple Tv or it doesn't make any difference if I connect it directly to the projector since the HDMI provides a digital connection as well?
Thank you for your patience, I'm getting to the question actually relevant to this thread.
More recently I have started browsing the MQA content on Tidal and what I'm confused about is how to get the best out of it with my resources. I heard that airplay is limited to 16/44. I have given you all this context because I tried connecting the phantom directly to the macbook by optical cable and I have set the Tidal setting to MQA pass through. Is this the best way to connect it? Can the Phantom unfold the MQA content internally?
I'm saving up for a second Golden egg and a Dialog to link them as a stereo system. Can Tidal through spark transmit MQA quality files? Either on the computer or on a phone.
Thank you much for your advice, sorry for the long post.
