Wifi streamer advice

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Hi all

need to add a wifi streamer to my irdac mainly to use with airplay. I was planning to sell my irdac and buy the yamaha wxc50 but having had the irdac on gumtree for few days, it hasn't generated any interested at all. I tried the px route but the price offered wasn't great.

So now i have decided to keep the irdac and add a wifi streamer to it. I have looked at few on amazon, ieast in particular looks promising but they all have very mixed reviews mainly due to dropouts in wifi connections.

any1 using such streamer? Your advice will be much appreciated.

 

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Hi all

need to add a wifi streamer to my irdac mainly to use with airplay. I was planning to sell my irdac and buy the yamaha wxc50 but having had the irdac on gumtree for few days, it hasn't generated any interested at all. I tried the px route but the price offered wasn't great.

So now i have decided to keep the irdac and add a wifi streamer to it. I have looked at few on amazon, ieast in particular looks promising but they all have very mixed reviews mainly due to dropouts in wifi connections.

any1 using such streamer? Your advice will be much appreciated.

Hi,

If I was going to replace my SBT, I would look at the Aurilac mini or Blusound Node 2. Both Arm 9 cortex and MQA ready, should that ever be an issue.

http://www.auralic.com/en/

 

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Hi all

need to add a wifi streamer to my irdac mainly to use with airplay. I was planning to sell my irdac and buy the yamaha wxc50 but having had the irdac on gumtree for few days, it hasn't generated any interested at all. I tried the px route but the price offered wasn't great.

So now i have decided to keep the irdac and add a wifi streamer to it. I have looked at few on amazon, ieast in particular looks promising but they all have very mixed reviews mainly due to dropouts in wifi connections.

any1 using such streamer? Your advice will be much appreciated.

Hi,

If I was going to replace my SBT, I would look at the Aurilac mini or Blusound Node 2. Both Arm 9 cortex and MQA ready, should that ever be an issue.

http://www.auralic.com/en/

looks good, but its over my budget by quite a fair bit.

something in the region of £50-75.

may be?

 

[SemiChronic]

For that kind of money i think id be looking at an apple tv3(optical out) itunes can sound really good.

 

[daveh75]

Chromecast Audio or Neet AirStream

 

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For that kind of money i think id be looking at an apple tv3(optical out) itunes can sound really good.

apple tv sounds good.

so how would it work?

would i need a tv?

my guess is: connect apple tv to the wifi network wirelessly or if there is an option to connect it via ethernet cable ( for more robust connection) and than connect all our idevice to the apple tv thru airplay.

is that it????

 

[daveh75]

Buying a 3 year old device, that's now discontinued and unsupported by Apple would be very unwise IMO.

 

[SemiChronic]

Well for about £20 on fleabay, its quite a comprehensive device and its audio quality and ease of use are favoured by many. Id rather use a ATV3 than a chrome thing, just my opinion.

Yes ethernet and wireless is supported, i sometimes use mine with my 851N. No probs.

I cant see HiFi enthusiasts dropping ATV3 for a good few years yet, but to some its all doom and gloom.

Small outlay good value

 

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APTV3 won't work, i think, because it has to connected to tv thru hdmi only than you can use the optical cable to take the audio out.

i could be wrong

 

[Blacksabbath25]

Airport express from apple it might work for you

 

[daveh75]

I wouldn't buy an AEX either at this point!

Apple haven't refreshed the H/W in more than 4 years (networking being yet another area they now willfully neglect), and with the recent round of price increases and Brexit gouging its now £100

 

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Apple music is not supported with Apple TV so you have to cast music from the phone or i pad to the atv via a screen mirroring function which cannot be used on the fly(can't use the device for anything else whilst streaming),also apple airplay sounds rubbish compared to Spotify connect on it's extreme setting.Aminesh that's the reason I plumped for Spotify and the amazon fire tv box 1st gen and hooked it up to my ir dac via optical cable and it sounds pretty good and I can't complain.I do have a apple TV 3rd gen sitting here doing nothing as it's a pile of s##t.

 

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i east soundstreamer from amazon looks good.

£45 quid with 2 5*review

still confused!!

 

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Apple music is not supported with Apple TV so you have to cast music from the phone or i pad to the atv via a screen mirroring function which cannot be used on the fly(can't use the device for anything else whilst streaming),also apple airplay sounds rubbish compared to Spotify connect on it's extreme setting.Aminesh that's the reason I plumped for Spotify and the amazon fire tv box 1st gen and hooked it up to my ir dac via optical cable and it sounds pretty good and I can't complain.I do have a apple TV 3rd gen sitting here doing nothing as it's a pile of s##t.

does amazon fire tv support airplay?

 

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That looks like it'll do the job you need it to do for not a lot of doh Aminesh.Go for it and tell us how you get on with it.looks promising.

 

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Decided on the i east sound stream

will order it tomorrow.

 

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Update:

i ordered the i east soundstream from amazon and have been using it for a couple of weeks.

i am very impressed with the device its well built looks nice and with the little antenna at the back it looks like a serious bit of kit.

setting up was easy with the WPS button which puts the device on the configuration mode, once it is connected to the wifi network you are pretty much good to go if you are using airplay. You do need to download their app to connect the streamer to the wifi network, there are plenty of other services available thru the app but because i am using airpaly i don't even have to open the ieast app.

it does what it suppose to do, as i said i have been using it for 2 weeks and i haven't had any connection dropped.

it has a built in bb dac, i am not using the dac, i have taken optical out to the irdac.

if you have a good dac and want to go wireless this is what you need. For £50 its an amazing streamer.

my brother asked me 'how does it sound?'

I told him it will sound just as good as your source.

It was good to see Vladimir commenting on my YouTube unboxing video of i east ss.

thanks for reading.