Network player

[Rockerman]

Hi guys iv just been offered the choice of two network player both the same price just wondering what one you guys would go for. The Denon 730ae or the mitchell & johnson wld+211t network player. Thanks in advance

[struth]

think i'd consider the latter. dont have wifi i think but has ethernet. will connect pretty much to anything and has internet radio afaik

[Stratmangler]

The Denon is more highly specced on the network audio side of things.
Doesn't do DAB.

I wouldn't touch either of them to be honest.
I've yet to see a network player from a box making/shifting company that has the going forward flexibility of a Squeezebox or a Raspberry Pi build.
You buy a box from a making/shifting company you're buying into imminent obsolescence.

[struth]

indeed chris, but they are cheap entries that need no work to initially work, which is fine if thats the object.

[Stratmangler]

It's difficult to recommend stuff when you know that something will become broken because a content provider will do something to change method of delivery, and the box maker won't do anything about it with respect to software updates.

The latter device has a DAB & FM tuner built in.
Go for that one.

[ReggieB]

The mitchell & johnson wld+211t I think is the same as my Sansui WLD 211 (https://www.whathifi.com/sansui/wld201l/review) which I use in my office. It works perfectly well. The biggest issue I have with it is that it won't play my 24bit FLAC files. Only the 16bit ones.

Personally, if I was on a tight budget I'd go for a Raspberry Pi based solution. If you don't want to build one pre-built solutions are available at around the same budget (https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/network-audio-players-raspdac/audiophonics-raspdac-lte-i-sabre-v4-streamer-raspberry-pi-3-b-dac-tcxo-p-11594.html) as players you've listed. Alternatively second hand Raspberry Pi players turn up on this forum fairly regularly.

[twotone]

I had a Denon 720AE for about four years, very good too and a decent sound but I've since upgraded to a Yamaha R-N803D stereo receiver which is in another league altogether, it does everything except Airplay 2 and is about £200 cheaper than the Denon 730AE I think.

Worth checking it out IMO, there's also a Onkyo equivalent around the same price as the Yamaha circa £500.

[Rockerman]

Hi all I went for the mitchell & johnson wld+211t network streamer in the end. It's not to bad does what I what. The strange thing is the dab and fm aerial socket is the push in type but my dab aerial has a screw plug so can't connect it but other then that it's a ok network player

[ReggieB]

You can get an adapter (http://www.systemsat.co.uk/f-type-connectors/rf-female-socket-to-f-type-screw-male-plug-adapter-converter.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwrdjnBRDXARIsAEcE5YkOa vnIIPalGv0RyWOPfgpwH2PuztQPDTFaUdh59a01NSL7qhyuJJM aAs9tEALw_wcB#fo_c=2971&fo_k=1b7c402f519128201fcc19d2cc31f2ba&fo_s=gplauk?infinity=ict2~net~gaw~ar~174539534378~ kw~~mt~~cmp~BP%20%7C%20Shopping%20-%20Low%20CPA%20-%20Low%20ROAS~ag~BP%20%7C%20Accessories%20-%20F%20Type%20Connectors) for the DAB connection.

[Rockerman]

Thankyou for that I will order on as the network player only got one aerial socket if must pick-up FM and dab from the same aerial.

[twotone]

Thankyou for that I will order on as the network player only got one aerial socket if must pick-up FM and dab from the same aerial.


My Yamaha R-N803D has both DAB & FM tuners and the signal for both comes from a Ron Smith external FM aerial, both tuners sound fantastic with the respective signals.