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How do you play high quality digital music *LOCALLY* - (CD quality - or higher)?

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Shades:
If your vintage HiFi gear has an AUX button/switch, Chances are high that you'll have Tulip connectors at the back to connect your computer to. A CD-player or DVD player in your computer can deal with audio CDs directly (without that special audio cable).

Granted, I do not listen to music on my phone (or watch video for that matter), detest tablets and only use computers/laptops for audio entertainment. When still living in NL, I had a Sony 5.1 amp, where I had connected my Sony carousel CD player, my Sony Mini-disc recorder, my JVC VHS recorder, My Sony PlayStation 2 and Sony CRT TV, all daisy-chained with SCART cables. Each of these devices came with a remote control. But because of SCART, I could use each remote to control all the devices that were connected by SCART. 3 Sony satellite speakers and 2 Wharfdale speakers...so yes, I do know what vintage entails, hahahah.

Connected my computer to the AUX port of the Sony amp and that was how I listened to music. Even though the carousel CD player held 5 CD's, because I only owned albums I often had a lot of songs I didn't appreciate, hence the Mini-Disc recorder. Which was a really great device, but it always took forever to song titles from CD to Mini-Disc. Apparently I owned a lot of albums that didn't copy that info from CD automatically to Mini-Disc.

Would have repeated such a setup here in PY, but you can't get that type of HiFi equipment here, unless you import it yourself. Import fees at the PY border are a problem. People working there are very corrupt. And I have not seen any of that type of HiFi equipment in stores that sell electronics. The general populace here doesn't know or care about decent HiFi equipment. Vintage or otherwise.

Anyway, in my mind that is still the proper way to listen to music. Not sound bars, Bluetooth speakers or that kind of stuff.

4wd:
Load your music onto a uSD card, plug it into an old smart phone, (or buy a cheap new one).
Install a music player app of you choice.
Connect phone to HiFi AUX input via 3.5mm - RCA cable.

Or 3.5mm - 3.5mm cable for external powered speakers, soundbar, etc if they don't have RCA input.

tomos:
Connect phone to HiFi AUX input via 3.5mm - RCA cable.
-4wd (September 18, 2022, 07:25 AM)
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Great idea :up:
Probably one step better would be via USB into the external DAC, to avoid using the phone's analogue converter. Will have to check the possible connections...

4wd:
Probably one step better would be via USB into the external DAC, to avoid using the phone's analogue converter.-tomos (September 18, 2022, 01:15 PM)
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A lot of phones have a pretty good DAC, some of the LG's, (V10 - V40, G5, G6, etc), made the DAC they used a selling point.

I'd try it before investing any money.

tomos:
^  I've got the DAC already (was a bit like buying the cart before the horse). Just got to order the proper cable for it...

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