Has anybody compared audio playback technical specs between tablets?
I find that for £800 or so I can buy a tablet with 128Gb of solid state disc, big enough for all of my ripped CD music collection.
The question is, to support my buying choice, is there any technical superiority between iPads running iTunes compared with Microsoft Surface running iTunes, or Groove, or other software?
And just out of interest, do we know anything about the hardware of these tablets in order to compare?
Thanks all, looking forward to buying on your recommendation.
I find that for £800 or so I can buy a tablet with 128Gb of solid state disc, big enough for all of my ripped CD music collection.
The question is, to support my buying choice, is there any technical superiority between iPads running iTunes compared with Microsoft Surface running iTunes, or Groove, or other software?
And just out of interest, do we know anything about the hardware of these tablets in order to compare?
Thanks all, looking forward to buying on your recommendation.
I'm not sure why an £800 tablet is needed, I think you can do it for rather less, but it depends what you are plugging it into - if it's just headphones I suspect an iPad may sound the nicest, but if not you have a wide choice.
You can plug a 128GB microSD into most tablets, just get a reputable brand Android tablet, add the SD card and you are fixed for a source.
The best standalone Android player IMO is Rocket Player, it's very very impressive.
If you want to stream to the tablet you can ditch the SD card and run a Mac/Win/Linux server in the house with SeeDeClip4 and use Chrome on the Tablet as the client, which works for me.
To get better sound you can buy a OTG USB adapter and plug in a DAC directly, or go USB/Optical adapter to a Behringer Ultracurve or Ultramatch (provided the adapter you buy does not insist of outputting 192k which will not work with those!).
Personally I'd go with an Android tablet (ASUS, Samsung etc) - get an angled stand for it and put your songs onto a linux (Raspberry Pi 3B perhaps) server for home and use microSD + Rocket Player on the move.
IMO a tablet makes an excellent HiFi source because it can sit next to the HiFi giving you touchscreen selection, I use a Yoga laptop for this as well but an Android tablet does the job perfectly too. On the sofa I set it to a slave and just use a laptop or tablet on the sofa as the remote.
This is my current rig as I'm also working on the house so it's a portable system 🙂
BTW a Lenovo Yoga or Dell XPS makes a great tablet replacement, they are small, light, have touchscreens, built in stands and I have the option of running the SeeDeClip4 server on the laptop too if I want (which could also serve the rest of the house - but currently it's on an old Linux server in the garage).
E.g:
Lenovo Yoga | Seriously Cool Laptops | Lenovo US
Also on holiday dates John Lewis do some useful sale prices on laptops, I picked mine up at easter for a song 🙂
You can plug a 128GB microSD into most tablets, just get a reputable brand Android tablet, add the SD card and you are fixed for a source.
The best standalone Android player IMO is Rocket Player, it's very very impressive.
If you want to stream to the tablet you can ditch the SD card and run a Mac/Win/Linux server in the house with SeeDeClip4 and use Chrome on the Tablet as the client, which works for me.
To get better sound you can buy a OTG USB adapter and plug in a DAC directly, or go USB/Optical adapter to a Behringer Ultracurve or Ultramatch (provided the adapter you buy does not insist of outputting 192k which will not work with those!).
Personally I'd go with an Android tablet (ASUS, Samsung etc) - get an angled stand for it and put your songs onto a linux (Raspberry Pi 3B perhaps) server for home and use microSD + Rocket Player on the move.
IMO a tablet makes an excellent HiFi source because it can sit next to the HiFi giving you touchscreen selection, I use a Yoga laptop for this as well but an Android tablet does the job perfectly too. On the sofa I set it to a slave and just use a laptop or tablet on the sofa as the remote.
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This is my current rig as I'm also working on the house so it's a portable system 🙂
BTW a Lenovo Yoga or Dell XPS makes a great tablet replacement, they are small, light, have touchscreens, built in stands and I have the option of running the SeeDeClip4 server on the laptop too if I want (which could also serve the rest of the house - but currently it's on an old Linux server in the garage).
E.g:
Lenovo Yoga | Seriously Cool Laptops | Lenovo US
Also on holiday dates John Lewis do some useful sale prices on laptops, I picked mine up at easter for a song 🙂
128GB. I remember when my collection was that small! I use MPD straight off the server in the living room, but have a couple of old tablets round the rest of the house which I chose because they have a charging stand which is handy. Not sure which droid tablets have that these days.
Thanks Both,
I hadn't considered Android devices, thinking that a Windows OS would at least let me use iTunes, Groove or other library/player, instead of being limited to iTunes only on an Apple device.
I'll do a bit more research before spending
Thanks
I hadn't considered Android devices, thinking that a Windows OS would at least let me use iTunes, Groove or other library/player, instead of being limited to iTunes only on an Apple device.
I'll do a bit more research before spending
Thanks
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