PSA: Do not EVER judge the audio quality of a recording if you are listening to it via any sort of Bluetooth wireless streaming.
I was just listening to my most recent concert recording I finished working on this weekend streamed from my phone to my living room stereo while I was doing some work, and it sounds like absolute dog shit compared to what's really on the recording that I hear direct from my workstation to my studio monitors or proper headphones.
Wow that first post is the worst run-on sentence I've ever written. Please pardon me I was speaking stream of consciousness to my phone because I'm angry at how terrible my recording sounds now.
@voltronic I DEMAND A REFUND
@voltronic there are dongles with 3.5mm female conectors that may expand sound output capabilities for phones, like the CX-Pro 31993 and are quite inexpensive
@elmaxx
I know, I have two of the Apple ones, and they work well with my Samsung. This was just for convenience.
@voltronic I've heard, never confirmed, that apple dongles limit output power on non idevices
@elmaxx
You heard correctly, but that can be bypassed if you are using a player app that supports direct USB streaming. I use USB Audio Player Pro. If you want full volume from other apps, you plug in the dongle, open USB audio player pro and raise the volume there to max. Then exit and play your audio from the other app.
You also want to make sure you get the USA version of the Apple dongle, which has much higher output power than the version they sell in other countries.
You should be accepted as techpriest and added as part of the crew of the Cogitatum Astra...
I know people and sending my request as we type
@voltronic I have to agree
nothing like having a good wired connection directly to the sound processor
Praise the Omnissiah!
@elmaxx
I often listen to a choral music streaming radio station while I'm doing food prep on Sundays, and I always thought the poor quality was just their stream. Now I realize it's likely the Bluetooth connection to my receiver that's mangling things far more.
The only exception might be if you are streaming in aptX lossless, though that's rare. My phone to Denon AVR can only do AAC 44.1 kHz. The source files are 24 bit, 96 kHz lossless.
The dynamics have become highly compressed, frequency response truncated, and it sounds like I'm listening through an FM radio through a heavy blanket. My original recording is quite faithful to the live sound, but this is just awful. No thank you.