Just watched a Darko Audio YT video whereby he plays Apples Hi Res Lossless music from his iPad, via a lightning/usb-a adapter to an Audioquest dragonfly DAC then through a 3.5mm to analog cable into his amp, this allows the full range of settings to be used, with the little DAC doing the auto switching between formats depending on whether it is coded as lossless or hi-res lossless.
Now this set-up is relatively inexpensive if you have either an iPhone or iPad, the whole kit costs around £140.
My question is can we hear the difference between lossless and high res lossless or are we heading down the hifi quality/cost/diminishing returns rabbit hole, where we start getting the ‘more space round the musician, improved musicality’ comments banded around to justify using HRLL?
Would we / can we, hear the differences or would our existing systems curtail us hearing the differences?
Now this set-up is relatively inexpensive if you have either an iPhone or iPad, the whole kit costs around £140.
My question is can we hear the difference between lossless and high res lossless or are we heading down the hifi quality/cost/diminishing returns rabbit hole, where we start getting the ‘more space round the musician, improved musicality’ comments banded around to justify using HRLL?
Would we / can we, hear the differences or would our existing systems curtail us hearing the differences?