Hi,
I'm new to the forum and this is my first entry.
Recently I've found myself listening to spotify premium a lot and I'm currently streaming it with the spotify app from my iphone4 to my airport express which links to my Denon AV reciever via an optical cable, to my RS1's in a stereo setup, and to be honest, I'm actually quite pleased with the result. Over the enhanced bitrate you get with premium, it sounds pretty good, but obviously its not overwhelming. iTunes lossless is good, but again, not perfect.
At the most recent Bristol sound and vision show I had a demo with the Marantz NA7004 using iTunes with my iPhone4 and I must say I was highly impressed... some of the best wireless mp3 playback I've heard, but for £700 though I can't quite justify the outlay. Since then I've been reading up on both the Marantz MCR603 and Denon RCD-N7 as they're bascially the same concept in a more compact form albeit with onboard CD players, within a more reasonable price bracket.
Do any of you have either of these systems having experienced the audio output on the airport express at some point... and if so have you honestly found a vast improvement in sound quality on any of these two against the airport express if you use either to stream itunes/spotify or both wirelessly? From what I understand there is no onboard DAC on either of these so I'm interested to hear what people think? Thanks
I'm new to the forum and this is my first entry.
Recently I've found myself listening to spotify premium a lot and I'm currently streaming it with the spotify app from my iphone4 to my airport express which links to my Denon AV reciever via an optical cable, to my RS1's in a stereo setup, and to be honest, I'm actually quite pleased with the result. Over the enhanced bitrate you get with premium, it sounds pretty good, but obviously its not overwhelming. iTunes lossless is good, but again, not perfect.
At the most recent Bristol sound and vision show I had a demo with the Marantz NA7004 using iTunes with my iPhone4 and I must say I was highly impressed... some of the best wireless mp3 playback I've heard, but for £700 though I can't quite justify the outlay. Since then I've been reading up on both the Marantz MCR603 and Denon RCD-N7 as they're bascially the same concept in a more compact form albeit with onboard CD players, within a more reasonable price bracket.
Do any of you have either of these systems having experienced the audio output on the airport express at some point... and if so have you honestly found a vast improvement in sound quality on any of these two against the airport express if you use either to stream itunes/spotify or both wirelessly? From what I understand there is no onboard DAC on either of these so I'm interested to hear what people think? Thanks
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