Article: AudioQuest DragonFly Red & DragonFly Black Review

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What app would one use to serve 24/96 music files from an iPhone6 to the Red?

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Would it be reasonable to expect the next iteration would be thunderbolt rather than USB. Isn't the PCIe bus (I understand thunderbolt to be PCIe) a "quieter" computer interface?

Dunno...just a dummy.

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I doubt there will ever be a thunderbolt version. The market for Thunderbolt is tiny. The PCIe bus is much higher speed and much noisier than USB or a PCI bus.

I'm out of my discipline talking about this stuff so could easily be way off base but I believe it was Superdad who said that PCEe was more discrete than current standards. apologies to Superdad if I am mistaken.

As the data is first ported out through thunderbolt isn't it natively PCEi?

Isn't USB gone in, say, five years....a legacy protocal that is outliving it's utility.

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Thunderbolt will be gone long before USB. There are so many mobile devices that use micro and mini USB and peripheral devices that use USB that it isn't going anywhere soon.

 

Thunderbolt may may have a technical advantage but that doesn't mean much.

Chris, best.

But your reply tells me....is this, forgive my age, a BetaMax/VHS argument....this lessor technology is still resident despite the superiority of another format.

Is PCIe a less noisy format?

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I got it working now. Had to roll back to non beta version of software.

 

One item that was implicit in the purchase of the DF was the promise of a firmware update enabling MQA and iOS app fo rcontrol of the DAC.

Wondering where and when this may be released. Any one heard anything positive?