This five-star music streamer will supercharge any entry-level hi-fi system – and it’s almost half-price!

[What Hi-Fi?]

You can now save £200 on Audiolab’s excellent 6000N Play which makes it a great addition to any budget system.

This five-star music streamer will supercharge any entry-level hi-fi system – and it’s almost half-price! : Read more

 

[Gray]

Once again, bad luck to anyone that paid full price.
(£249 would probably look like more than enough to pay if you took a look inside it).

 

[MZS]

A word of caution. This streamer is currently incompatible with BBC streamed content - avoid if you want to listen to BBC radio.
It's a fine player otherwise.

 

[NevilleK]

I have one of these.
The audio quality is decent - I primarily use it for BBC, Tidal and DLNA, and I enjoy the listen.

But the Play-Fi app is awful (on Android). Not just a bit fragile, but awful. It feels abandoned - which for a product that I bought less than 2 years ago is not acceptable - my network streamer will end up in landfill if the app isn't usable.

Problems:
- It requires a re-start after a period of non-use. Going to Tidal on the app just hangs, with a message about a missing country code.
- It routinely just stops playing - no reason I can identify. Just...nothing.
- The Tidal navigation is awful - when you list albums by artist, you get _lots_ of duplicates, and when you click on an album, if the artist list is too long it covers the "play" button so you can't play the album.
- The BBC stations no longer work. Not sure if that's Audiolab or Play-fi - but it's another "heading for landfill" bug.

This purchase has really soured me on audiolab - I'm still using kit from Marantz I bought 2 decades ago, whereas this doohickey feels like it's heading for the skip.