Recent content by cozey boy

Thanks everyone for the contribution and constructive solutions. By chance, Amazon have a lightning deal on the Wiim Pro today -£127 - so, unit ordered and fingers crossed for success this time 😬. Incidentally, I note that the Wiim Ultra is about to be released which perhaps explains a desire...

Thanks Cork - I appreciate the lateral thinking. Sadly, neither the Musical Fidelity nor SMSL dac have hdmi - but it's a creative idea and the simplicity of it is exactly what I'm trying to achieve, and (naively) thought would be easy. Keep thinking, you're on the right track!

Thanks. I certainly considered the Node but too many reports of faulty units for my liking - and, to be honest, it has more than I need. Manufacturers seemed to think they hadd to jump on the Tidal, Spotify, Roon, internet radio bandwagon, but there must be plenty old school folk like me who...

Thanks - I've had a look and that'll be very helpful if I go down the Wiim route.

Thanks Rodolfo. I tried Bluetooth with the CA Minx and the Sonos, and I've had a Bluetooth connector in the past. If I have the music on as background it's ok. However, I listen mainly to classical music and the different colours in an orchestra are part of the pleasure and, for my ears at...

Thanks for the prompt and constructive replies. I'd thought about the Yamaha - so I'll maybe do a bit more reading on that. The WiiM is a thought, forgive my ignorance but I was assuming that was Apple only, so hadn't given it serious consideration? As an aside I should point out I tried the...

So, here's the journey: After years of a simple 'vintage' set up of amp, cd player and speakers, I start thinking it would be great just to stream my music using WiFi (Bluetooth not a good option). So I spend a month ripping all my CDs to flac using MusicBee. All good. I then updated the amp...