Audio streamer suggestions please...

[Filterlab]

Currently my entire music collection (ripped from CDs) is on my MacBook Pro. I stream it directly from there via my DSD USB to Coax converter into my DAC. Sounds absolutely stunning!

But I want to be able to free up the MacBook as I do countless other things with it, and having it connected to the DAC isn't always handy. So I need a streamer.

Requirements are...

1. It can read a music library from an internal drive or external drive/flash storage.

2. It has an app from which I can control playback.

3. USB or coaxial output.

4. DAC not required.

5. Not Raspberry Pi - I can't be bothered with one of those.

Suggest something please as the web is filled with a bewildering amount of product.

[Sherwood]

Budget?

[JohnJo]

The little Innuos is very good

https://innuos.com/zen_mini_mk3/

https://audiot.co.uk/p-26882-innuos-...s-audio-t.aspx

[Filterlab]

Budget?

At the moment, about £350. It's literally only got to provide a digital signal so doesn't need to be a £64,000 dCS.

It will be for casual rather than critical listening.

[Filterlab]

The little Innuos is very good

https://innuos.com/zen_mini_mk3/

https://audiot.co.uk/p-26882-innuos-...s-audio-t.aspx

Looks lovely! Maybe a bit later this year, touch out of my budget currently. House move and all.

[Bencat]

There are a couple of suggestions which you could look at

https://wiimhome.com/Overview

Above is quite basic but reading through (a brief skim only by me) it should do most if not all that you are asking .

Then a Bluesound Node 2 should be available used for about £350

You may also get a few others around that level but you would need to have a look for yourself . Marantz , Denon , Pioneer all made similar units and these go for about £200 used possibly even less .

[Filterlab]

Thanks kindly. The Wiim doesn't have storage playback or digital output, but I'll dig through the other manufacturers you mentioned.

I did stumble across the Yamaha WXC-50. They seem to go for around £200 which is good. That'll do me for now I reckon.

[Stryder5]

I use a WXC-50, no complaints whatsoever and great value.

Gary

[dave2010]

As you have an MBP, why not replace that (say) with a SH Mac Mini? Would be quite easy to move all your music files over.

May not be what you want to do - but it is one solution. However note that some of the earlier Mac Minis don't necessarily work well with streaming services - so if you want those as well as your own collection that might not be a way to go.

[Filterlab]

I had considered the Mac mini as I've used several before (and I own a Mac consultancy for a living - I can do things with Macs that most people can't even dream about), but I'm not the only one who'll be using it, and I don't want to tie up the tele.

A straightforward all-in-one-box is what I'm really after.

Aside from the WXC-50, I saw the Pioneer N50a, but they're a bit tricky to find used - plenty of the N50 variant of course.

I think it may be the WXC-50. Hopefully they've improved the Musiccast app. I set one up a couple of years ago for a client and was not impressed with the app, although the Yamaha itself was very good. I think she had the WXA-50 which I'm guessing is pretty much the same bar the power amplifier.