RioTubes wrote: > My understanding is that iPad Air (iOS 7) does not support AptX > Bluetooth. Is hardware required, or does iPeng 7 Player support AptX? > Neither. The Bluetooth stack needs to support the codec. Apps can't change Apple's Bluetooth stack so if iPad doesn't support the codec, you can't use it.
> > Ultimately, I plan to stream to my iPad Air from server via LMS/iPeng > and then stream from iPad to receiver via AirPlay and/or aptX (the > receiver supports both). > Don't know about AptX but please be aware that AirPlay only supports 16/48 so if you use AirPlay, iOS will downsample your stream to that (the 16 bit don't hurt as much as with other transmissions because volume will be sent separately). The stream uses lossless ALAC. > > Regarding the exchange above regarding the dock, my understanding is > that my receiver (NAD D 7050) is capable of 24/96 via its USB "dock" > (type A USB connector) from iPad Air. Well, the iPad doesn't have a USB port so you need a Lightning-to-USB adaptor. Also, the iPad has to act as a USB host. Lightning generally supports that but whether your DAC is compatible is something I don't know. AFAIK the DAC needs to be part of Apple's MFI program for that. With the old iPads you could use the CCK but I am not sure that will still work to full resolution (it might, I just don't know) since you would put up quite an adapter stack (Lightning->30-Pin->USB). --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100641 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
