Just back from the show. (Fantstic show by the way, lots of impressions and useful conversations with the people with first hand knowledge of the products).
One thing puzzled me. A chap at Chord room talking about their dacs with bluetooth receivers insisted that i can stream lossless audio from ipod touch via bluetooth to chordette gem and it will get bit-perfect uncompressed stream. Alternatively, according to him, i could plug in an inexpensive senheiser bluetooth dongle into ipod classic and get a bit-perfect uncompresses stream on the bluetooth input of a Chord dac. I argued that afaik bluetooth compresses but he was adamant - lossless and bit perfect. Really?
I have a Gem and bluetooth input sounds significantly worse compared to usb in, although i have not tried lossless over bluetooth because i thought there was no point.
what do you make of this?
One thing puzzled me. A chap at Chord room talking about their dacs with bluetooth receivers insisted that i can stream lossless audio from ipod touch via bluetooth to chordette gem and it will get bit-perfect uncompressed stream. Alternatively, according to him, i could plug in an inexpensive senheiser bluetooth dongle into ipod classic and get a bit-perfect uncompresses stream on the bluetooth input of a Chord dac. I argued that afaik bluetooth compresses but he was adamant - lossless and bit perfect. Really?
I have a Gem and bluetooth input sounds significantly worse compared to usb in, although i have not tried lossless over bluetooth because i thought there was no point.
what do you make of this?