Being strictly 'old school' (by that I mean that I have no 'smart' anything - even my mobile is an old Nokia that sits in the car in case of an emergency) I thought I'd look on this forum for some sage advice ...
Within my hi-fi set-up I have an old Denon FM tuner (TU-1800) which I would like to upgrade to either an FM/DAB unit (extremely hard to find one at all these days) or, since it seems to be the way to go, maybe a machine that receives internet radio wirelessly (I understand that to be called 'streaming'), which can be connected to my amlifier via left & right analogue phono sockets as now.
I've recently been pointed in the direction of something called a Sonos Connect which might be appropriate, but from pictures of it there would appear to be no front panel display, so how do you know what you're scrolling through or indeed what it is you're eventually listening to? Presumably it would come with some sort of remote controller that has a viewing panel on it?
If it helps any kind soul who wants to reply to this thread, I have BT fibre optic broadband in the office upstairs, connected by an ethernet cable to my desktop PC in the same room. The internet speed is regularly a smidgeon over 70Mbps so I guess that's powerful enough for something in the living room to receive a wireless signal and 'stream' without breaking up or hanging. And please don't talk to me about 'apps' and the like .. as I said in my intro, I have nothing to view apps on, except my new Windows 8.1 PC which is tethered in the office!
Within my hi-fi set-up I have an old Denon FM tuner (TU-1800) which I would like to upgrade to either an FM/DAB unit (extremely hard to find one at all these days) or, since it seems to be the way to go, maybe a machine that receives internet radio wirelessly (I understand that to be called 'streaming'), which can be connected to my amlifier via left & right analogue phono sockets as now.
I've recently been pointed in the direction of something called a Sonos Connect which might be appropriate, but from pictures of it there would appear to be no front panel display, so how do you know what you're scrolling through or indeed what it is you're eventually listening to? Presumably it would come with some sort of remote controller that has a viewing panel on it?
If it helps any kind soul who wants to reply to this thread, I have BT fibre optic broadband in the office upstairs, connected by an ethernet cable to my desktop PC in the same room. The internet speed is regularly a smidgeon over 70Mbps so I guess that's powerful enough for something in the living room to receive a wireless signal and 'stream' without breaking up or hanging. And please don't talk to me about 'apps' and the like .. as I said in my intro, I have nothing to view apps on, except my new Windows 8.1 PC which is tethered in the office!