My resolution for this year is not to spend big money on hifi. So with this is mind I have allowed myself one small purchase for the New Year. For the grand sum of £80 I got a Simple Audio Roomplayer + high resolution streamer with amplifier which I just hooked up today.
Yes I know the company has gone t**s up ... but where else am I going to get that kind of value. Setting it up was a cinch and I have managed to get it working with a couple of streaming / internet radio services and working with a local music library. I can control it from a similarly expensive £80 Windows tablet.
I only have it hooked up at a desk through headphones at the moment, but it fits well with my paradigm of small compact hifi and sounds pretty good. Need to connect some speakers to it to see how that sounds but I am quite pleased for the moment.
If at some point the software or streaming services decide to give up the ghost, I believe it's possible to load Squeezebox software onto it. So all in all I think it's a win-win *music2*
Yes I know the company has gone t**s up ... but where else am I going to get that kind of value. Setting it up was a cinch and I have managed to get it working with a couple of streaming / internet radio services and working with a local music library. I can control it from a similarly expensive £80 Windows tablet.
I only have it hooked up at a desk through headphones at the moment, but it fits well with my paradigm of small compact hifi and sounds pretty good. Need to connect some speakers to it to see how that sounds but I am quite pleased for the moment.
If at some point the software or streaming services decide to give up the ghost, I believe it's possible to load Squeezebox software onto it. So all in all I think it's a win-win *music2*