Streaming on old receivers
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cpt_paranoia
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Yeah, it must be via an aux input. Not via the phono input...
ducati_EL34
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Check the volume level of your streaming device. I am streaming to a SS console unit of my parents, and it is working well for us.
Dswankey
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I'm pretty sure what the OP is trying to do is not considered "streaming".
@cpt_paranoia
If I remember correctly you know your tech, if you're still following this thread can you clarify
cpt_paranoia
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Well, there's streaming and there's streaming...
If the OP is using an external media provider, then they are streaming from that source to their phone.
What they aren't doing is 'casting', where a stream is directed to a streaming endpoint from a controlling device; for example, using an Amazon app on a phone to access Amazon music, but sending that stream to an Amazon Echo.
I'm fairly relaxed about the terminology. I consider that I am streaming (and casting) when I use LMS to play music from my NAS to my DLNA endpoints.
Dswankey
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So if the OP is just playing music files he has stored on his phone then it's not streaming
Let's say the OP is playing Spotify, Tidal etc; on his phone and the intent is to connect to a receiver w/speakers then all he's really doing is just amplifying that audio source being fed out of the phone to the receiver via 3.5mm to RCA?
Let's say the OP is playing Spotify, Tidal etc; on his phone and the intent is to connect to a receiver w/speakers then all he's really doing is just amplifying that audio source being fed out of the phone to the receiver via 3.5mm to RCA?
cpt_paranoia
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I would agree with that.
Then he's streaming from Tidal or Spotify servers to a streaming endpoint in his phone. It happens that the digital media controller and digital media renderer (streaming endpoint) are in the same device; his phone. The digital media server (DMS) is not; it is remote, and not even on his local network (unlike my LMS).
You could make the case that playing music stored on a phone or 'mp3 player' could also be streaming, but internal to a network on that device. The device contains DMS, DMC & DMR. A sensible architecture for such a device might well provide access to the DMS using a streaming protocol, so the local DMS could be seamlessly replaced by a remote DMS, without significant changes to the operation of that architecture; you'd just redirect DMC and DMR requests to the remote DMS.
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He would certainly be streaming to his phone. Personally, I would call it streaming. Not really any functionally different than streaming via a streamer box....either way, the final leg of the trip is hard-wired, off-net.
The defining characteristic of streaming is media access via a computer network.
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It sounds to me like he is streaming on his phone and sending the output to his receiver inputs, so yeah, the title is a bit off. Basically, he's going hardwired with the 3.5mm jack to the RCAs as opposed to using something like a Bluetooth receiver. I've done both and both are fine for garage duty or checking out new stuff.
The receiver isn't doing anything with the internet per se....
The receiver isn't doing anything with the internet per se....
I stream from my phone to my DAC all the time, it’s no different than using any other device.
He has one.
Dswankey
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The OP made no mention of Dac or of owning one, based on thread title "Streaming on old receivers" and what he initially posted, he's plugging his phone, I assume into Aux, using a variation of thus
I use a rocket fish Bluetooth from b buy works great adjust the volume on my phone leave the receiver at 9 oclock
Irrelevant, you don’t need a DAC to stream, I just prefer to.
His phone has a DAC. He is streaming to his phone, which then processes the rendered media from digital to analog via that DAC.
