

Streaming does drain your battery it gets even worse if you utilize a Dongle DAC to drive a pair of headphones or a pair of active loudspeakers on the desktop.Īnother drawback is that the DAC in your smartphone does not compare favorably to the DAC inside of a dedicated music streamer. The vast majority of consumers use their smartphone to stream and that’s a perfectly valid way to go. Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music HD, TIDAL, Qobuz, and Deezer are the preferred gateway drugs for hundreds of millions of consumers around the globe and there is pretty much something for everyone at this point.Ĭlassical music fans received a huge boost last week with the launch of Apple Classical Music and we have already started using the app and will be discussing our experience as part of a upcoming podcast covering the current state of music streaming. Digital music streaming accounts for 85% of the market in 2023 and that level of adoption is not getting any smaller.
