inexpensive streamer?

[The Vinyl Adventure]

sorting the dining room system,
gonna use my dynaudio 42's or usher s520's, a miniwatt (when hannah buys me one) and my 7520
was going to use the iphone with a digital dock but that limits the use for hannah when im not in.
so whats the options for streamers...
its preferablle that it works with twonky media as thats what serves the majik and i dont want to risk confusing the main system with other servers...
any thoughts...
id quite like a sqeezebox touch, but i cant afford one and know little of the previous models.. do they work with twonky?

[Alex_UK]

Roku (Pinnacle) Soundbridge works nicely with Twonky, or a PS3! ;)

[Stratmangler]

id quite like a sqeezebox touch, but i cant afford one and know little of the previous models.. do they work with twonky?

Nope. Designed to work with Slimserver/Squeeze Center/Squeezebox Server (delete as applicable). A chap from Linn did write a plugin for the server program which enables the program to recognise Linn DS players.

Chris:)

[Stratmangler]

Roku (Pinnacle) Soundbridge works nicely with Twonky, or a PS3! ;)

Can they play flac files yet ?

Chris:)

[Alex_UK]

Dunno, actually, never tried (only lossless I've bothered with is ALAC or plain old uncompressed WAV) I'll try and find out.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

yeah, it needs to play flac..

chris- i just had a massive faff the other day when twonky shit its self when i was messing with foobar as a server/controler.. had to redownload the new version of twonky to get it up and running again, so i dont really want to do anything to jepodise that again... twonky has been perfect otherwise, so thats why im keen to stick with it...

[The Vinyl Adventure]

i just did a big convert from mp3 to higher bitrate aac for my ipod, so that might be ok if roku plays that if they are going to make them work with flac one day?

[Ian Walker]

Hi Hamish,

I use a PS3(so does Dunc)with PS3 media server. This plays flac no probs and hooked up to to a good dac is as good as anything affordable and beyond on the market i reckon.

Ian.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Hi Hamish,

I use a PS3(so does Dunc)with PS3 media server. This plays flac no probs and hooked up to to a good dac is as good as anything affordable and beyond on the market i reckon.

Ian.

needs to be little...
im still tempted to have a go with one against the majik.... but i mentioned it to hannah and she looked at me like i was just trying to come up with an excuse to get a ps3... the more i went on about it the less she belived me too....
a shame coz if it was better, i could flog both the bluray player and the majik and have a consol to play games on

[Alex_UK]

Roku Soundbridge:

"Our built-in software supports WMA, AAC*, ALAC, MP3, WAV, and AIFF. To play protected WMA files, you will need Microsoft's DRM 10, which is included with Windows Media Connect. Unfortunately, rights-managed AAC files purchased from the Apple music store can not be played on SoundBridge. (FLAC and Ogg-Vorbis can be played using Firefly.)"

(Firefly is free, AFAIK, and can run alongside Twonky)

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Yeah, I just found that too...
Hmmm
the other advantage of using twonky is that I can continue to control it with plug player on the phone... I wonder if I streamed aac through this secondary system I would miss much in terms of quality as aposed to flac... It's no meant to be the most amazing all singing all dancing high end system... I'm edging back towards a iPod dock .. I could prob find an onkyo one for £100 then just ge a second hand iPod and load it with aac's then I wouldn't have to worry about streaming... I could also then use it in a dock in the kitchen and the dock we have in the bedroom...
Maybe I should just eff off the majik and go down the sqeezbox route all over the house with a transporter thing in the lounge touch in the dining room and booms everywhere else....
Or keep the majik and get it working with the sqeezebox server thing.... ....
Or buy a ps3 for every room in the house (that could be the fun option)
Crap to many options... And frankly far too little money!

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Nope. Designed to work with Slimserver/Squeeze Center/Squeezebox Server (delete as applicable). A chap from Linn did write a plugin for the server program which enables the program to recognise Linn DS players.

Chris:)


to be fair,after a bit of investigation, this looks like the best solution by far

a duet would do the the job ok, the handset could then stay in the lounge and hannah would have easier control over the hifi when im out.... right?

[The Vinyl Adventure]

in fact.. could i not just get a reciver ( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Squeezebox-Receiver-Network-Music-System-BRAND-NEW_W0QQitemZ380204140535QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Def aultDomain_3?hash=item5885eec7f7 ) then get a controller when i can afford one? and control it with ipeng on my iphone (not great for hannah .. but better for the bank balance in the short term)

[markf]

I would be tempted to try the dynaudio 42's in your main setup (give the PMCs a few days off) ,your room looked small in the pictures you posted.

I'm getting very good results with a pair of Dynaudio 52s in my study.

[Themis]

in fact.. could i not just get a reciver ( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Squeezebox-Receiver-Network-Music-System-BRAND-NEW_W0QQitemZ380204140535QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Def aultDomain_3?hash=item5885eec7f7 ) then get a controller when i can afford one? and control it with ipeng on my iphone (not great for hannah .. but better for the bank balance in the short term)
You can control it with a computer. The user interface through an internet browser is very neat.

Nevertheless, I would rather advice a SB classic. The classic remote is very well made : small and fast.

[Rare Bird]

http://www.sonos.com/howitworks/Default.aspx?rdr=true&LangType=1033

[Alex_UK]

I think you will struggle to convince us the Sonos system is (as per Hamish's thread title) an "Inexpensive streamer" - nice though they are, Andre?

[Rare Bird]

I think you will struggle to convince us the Sonos system is (as per Hamish's thread title) an "Inexpensive streamer" - nice though they are, Andre?

Well i did think it wasnt too cheap but some people on here seem to think money grows on trees & find an amp or speakers at a few grand apiece normal :mental:

The Sonus set up can be as cheap as you want, if you can run a LAN near your amplifier you can cut out the Bridge (i think)..besides these system cum up on the Flea Bay cheap enough...

[The Vinyl Adventure]

We sell it at the shop... It's nice, but yeah, to dear!

[Ali Tait]

Maplin have some cheapish media players.Mght be worth a look.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

I thought about that mr Ali tait, but art they mostly multimedia players that would need a tv/monitor to function

[Rare Bird]

I bought one of these. The new version has HDMI if your intrested in films..You can still buy the Mk.1 with with just composit for half price. I connect it to the LCD TV for the menu, connect an outboard HDD full of FLAC's to the USB (The cartridge you buy for it is too expensive), theres a USB aswell on the front to connect a dongle so you can stream from your puter or theres a LAN on the rear if you wish to use that instead.Has optical output to connect to a DAC to bypass the shitty sound card.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/freeagent/freeagent_theater_plus

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4998

[Ali Tait]

I thought about that mr Ali tait, but art they mostly multimedia players that would need a tv/monitor to function

Hamish,just buy a cheap digital photo frame to use as a miniature monitor.I believe this is what Stan does,perhaps he could comment.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

hmmm, yeah, that sounds interesting... i hadnt realised picture frames came with video input's i have only seen ones with memory card/usb slots

[Rare Bird]

Hamish,just buy a cheap digital photo frame to use as a miniature monitor.I believe this is what Stan does,perhaps he could comment.

I was looking at one other day as i had the same thoughts but they only have a USB & SD card reader!

[Ali Tait]

Stan was doing this.Not exactly certain how he was doing it though.He did post about it on a thread ages ago.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

STAAAAANNNN Where are you STAAAAAANNNN ... any comments?