What I am going to try is plug my pc into my dac and the dac into the AVR and see if it sounds equal to my phone performance via airplay. It just clearly sounds different, like the resolution isn’t changing and even at higher res without my phone/airplay does not sound as good as regular YouTube via my phone.
I see what you are saying, I’m not sure if sound quality is getting better or the speakers are playing the way they should be or the sound is enhanced. I’ve added my receiver to my Apple home app and then I can basically select where I want the sound to come out of and I just choose my receiver. I go to YouTube or now I’ve also tried Quboz. I have the heos app downloaded, but I’m not using heos. My pc is windows, and on my pc I run Quboz for music direct from PC to the AVR. And, since it sounds great Apple Music is now my preferred means to music.Ĭlick to expand.Not really, the only Apple product I have is the phone. I do not have Airplay, I have Airport Express which precedes Airplay enabled devices, and yet I can say with certainty that even though my PC to Airport Express connection only delivers Apple Music in my iTunes Library to my amplification at 16/44.1, I can not discern any divergence in sound quality from this mean to music in comparison to stereo SACD. Now, with Windows Audio Session in play you will be able to run some PC tasks while music is playing without having the music distrupted. To get the best results set iTunes preferences to Windows Audio Session and also to match output at the bit and bite rate for the highest res files in iTunes Library to your amp's DAC processing capability, if you will ever be sending from usb to amp. In this scenario the amp's DAC is doing conversion to analog. Just a sidebar here, I'm speculating that you are engaging Airplay to get iTunes on your PC, or other devices, wirelessly to amp input.