What would be a good portable Dac/Amp to use with my HD6xx and Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone?
I am new to this hobby. I purchased a HD6XX and plan to use it with my Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone, that has a 3.5mm jack. I was wondering if I needed a portable dac/amp or just a portable amp and if so what would one recommend? Any assistance one could provide, would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Haz
Mar 7, 2024
edit: Didn't winamp have a kbps readout? I feel like this would be easy to test... I don't have any cd's though obviously.
edit2 **shittyMATHedition**: this is bugging me now. so if you had 1440kbps x 60seconds in a minute for kbpm conversion =86,400kbpm x3.5 minute song = 302,400kb? So 2 x 302megabyte average length 3.5 minute pop songs per CD at true lossless from the master?
edit3: I dont even know anymore because it could be lossless with pcm but would it be lossless at that point? I do more googleys when I have time.
There seems to be a point of confusion here about transcoding between formats. MP3 is lossy. Once you use LAME or whatever converter to go from PCM to MP3, you end up with a lossy file forever, regardless of how high a bitrate you use. You cannot re-convert back into PCM (i.e. burn MP3 to CD) and expect the sound to be the same as the original. What I read in SO (btw I had no idea which post was yours) that you linked may be an intellectually stimulating and interesting exercise in digital audio processing, but why would anyone want to convert a song encoded in a lower bit rate to a higher one? It is a one way street, you will never recover any lost detail from a low bit rate signal by transcoding to a higher bit rate.
Back to the original topic. These days I collect from any source I can find. CD format is still the most practical format for collecting high quality sound. There is music available in higher sampling rates like 24-bit/96kHz sampling and even higher, but that is not “common”. With all this digital talk you may think I really like CDs, but I prefer vinyl. What is most important is the music itself, reagrdless of how I listen to it.