best ways/device to listen to music wireless
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Each of these options have their pros and cons as to your original post. The Hapurs or the Sound mate gives you the flexibility you were seeking. It can function through your router or as a stand alone wireless solution. You could stream audio from your pc using Jriver or one of the other media solutions or one of your guests could connect to it directly and stream media from their own device. The one drawback to that would be they would possibly need to install the appropriate app to connect to the device. I like the simplicity of it and the fact that it is not Bluetooth which is in my experience can be a bit temper mental at times. The one other issue would be you have to use the internal DAC with the device which I read you prefer not to do. I do not know what your current Dac is.
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Actually, the hapurs/soundmate also has an optical/spdif output in addition to the analog out. He could use his dac assuming the dac will accommodate an optical cable. This is how I am using mine. Optical connection from the hapurs to my integrated.
Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant -
This is frustrating, the hapurs seem like a good idea, it is cheap and does pretty much what I need it to do...
But I can't find it anywhere in canada!!
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Simplyrandom wrote: »Each of these options have their pros and cons as to your original post. The Hapurs or the Sound mate gives you the flexibility you were seeking. It can function through your router or as a stand alone wireless solution. You could stream audio from your pc using Jriver or one of the other media solutions or one of your guests could connect to it directly and stream media from their own device. The one drawback to that would be they would possibly need to install the appropriate app to connect to the device. I like the simplicity of it and the fact that it is not Bluetooth which is in my experience can be a bit temper mental at times. The one other issue would be you have to use the internal DAC with the device which I read you prefer not to do. I do not know what your current Dac is.
Thank you for this breakdown of the info. I am trying to find hapurs in canada....hapurs does not list any retaillers for canada and amazon.com does not ship outside usa...
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This seems to be the same thing and available in Canada. Keep in mind you will likely still need to install DLNA rendering software on your pc. Jriver, airfoil, media monkey, to name a few. These are relatively cheap, jriver is my choice for local files, but airfoil works great for sending, spotify, Pandora, I heart, etc. over DLNA, which jriver doesn't do at this point.
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B00V4I0IKO/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1428511470&sr=8-2&keywords=soundmate+m2&dpPl=1&dpID=41dApLFMRHL&ref=plSrch&pi=SY200_QL40Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant -
jeremymarcinko wrote: »This seems to be the same thing and available in Canada. Keep in mind you will likely still need to install DLNA rendering software on your pc. Jriver, airfoil, media monkey, to name a few. These are relatively cheap, jriver is my choice for local files, but airfoil works great for sending, spotify, Pandora, I heart, etc. over DLNA, which jriver doesn't do at this point.
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B00V4I0IKO/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1428511470&sr=8-2&keywords=soundmate+m2&dpPl=1&dpID=41dApLFMRHL&ref=plSrch&pi=SY200_QL40
interesting, thank you!!!
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would iscsi mapped as a drive work on a laptop using jriver so DLNA would not be needed?Klipsch The Nines, Audioquest Thunderbird Interconnect, Innuos Zen MK3 W4S recovery, Revolution Audio Labs USB & Ethernet, Border Patrol SE-I, Audioquest Niagara 5000 & Thunder, Cullen Crossover II PC's.
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Could one plug a laptop (cheap with external hard drive) in the DAC and control that laptop wirelessly? From other devices?
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I use audioengine B1 streaming Tidal BT HI FI from my mobile device to my Marantz AV7701 in stereo to my 705s indoors and out from my AV7701 to my Yaqin MC100B to drive my outdoor Atrium 8's.My New Year's resolution is 3840 × 2160
Family Room| Marantz AV7704| Usher Dancer Mini - 2 DMD Mains |Usher Dancer Mini-x DMD's Surrounds | Usher BE-616 DMD Center | SVS Ultra Rear Surrounds | Parasound Halo A21 | Parsound Halo A52+ | MIT Shotgun S3's | Dual SVS SB 4000 Ultras | Oppo UDP 203 | Directv Genie HD DVR | Samsung 75" Q8 QLED | PSAudio Stellar GCD | Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ | Lumin U1 Mini | HP Elite Slice PC | ROON'd for life |
ManCave: HT:Polk LSiM 706VR3 LSiM 703's LSiM 702's|| Marantz AV7002 AV PrePro Sunfire TGA-7401| Sony PS4 Pro| Sony PS4 Pro|SVS PB13 Ultra| Oppo UDP 203 | Music Hall MMF 5.3se TT w/ Soundsmith Carmen | Samsung 55" SUHD TV | Sony PS4
Patio | Polk Atrium 8's | Yamaha R-N303BL |
Office BlueSound Node| KEF LS50 | Peactree Nova 125SE |
Bedroom | Focal 905's | Chromecast Audio |
Garage | Polk Monitor 5B's
Closet Yamaha M80 | 2 Polk MP3K subs| Yaqin MC100B with Shuguang Treasures KT 88's & CV181Z's | Tesla E83CC's | Marantz 2252B | Marantz 2385 |Polk SDA SRS 2.3 | LSiM 705's | -
Mikey081057 wrote: »I use audioengine B1 streaming Tidal BT HI FI from my mobile device to my Marantz AV7701 in stereo to my 705s indoors and out from my AV7701 to my Yaqin MC100B to drive my outdoor Atrium 8's.
So Source-bluetooth-dac-amp-speakers ??
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damnusernames, yes. Right now I am using jriver with a usb drive into my laptop going into the dac. I can control it with the laptop or gizmo via my cell.
Soon as I have time, I am going to see if the iscsi part on the nas would work since the laptop would or should see it as a "drive" and just point jriver to it. In theory i think it should.
Klipsch The Nines, Audioquest Thunderbird Interconnect, Innuos Zen MK3 W4S recovery, Revolution Audio Labs USB & Ethernet, Border Patrol SE-I, Audioquest Niagara 5000 & Thunder, Cullen Crossover II PC's. -
damnusernames wrote: »Mikey081057 wrote: »I use audioengine B1 streaming Tidal BT HI FI from my mobile device to my Marantz AV7701 in stereo to my 705s indoors and out from my AV7701 to my Yaqin MC100B to drive my outdoor Atrium 8's.
So Source-bluetooth-dac-amp-speakers ??
Yes... 2 amps though... one indoors one for outdoor
My New Year's resolution is 3840 × 2160
Family Room| Marantz AV7704| Usher Dancer Mini - 2 DMD Mains |Usher Dancer Mini-x DMD's Surrounds | Usher BE-616 DMD Center | SVS Ultra Rear Surrounds | Parasound Halo A21 | Parsound Halo A52+ | MIT Shotgun S3's | Dual SVS SB 4000 Ultras | Oppo UDP 203 | Directv Genie HD DVR | Samsung 75" Q8 QLED | PSAudio Stellar GCD | Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ | Lumin U1 Mini | HP Elite Slice PC | ROON'd for life |
ManCave: HT:Polk LSiM 706VR3 LSiM 703's LSiM 702's|| Marantz AV7002 AV PrePro Sunfire TGA-7401| Sony PS4 Pro| Sony PS4 Pro|SVS PB13 Ultra| Oppo UDP 203 | Music Hall MMF 5.3se TT w/ Soundsmith Carmen | Samsung 55" SUHD TV | Sony PS4
Patio | Polk Atrium 8's | Yamaha R-N303BL |
Office BlueSound Node| KEF LS50 | Peactree Nova 125SE |
Bedroom | Focal 905's | Chromecast Audio |
Garage | Polk Monitor 5B's
Closet Yamaha M80 | 2 Polk MP3K subs| Yaqin MC100B with Shuguang Treasures KT 88's & CV181Z's | Tesla E83CC's | Marantz 2252B | Marantz 2385 |Polk SDA SRS 2.3 | LSiM 705's |
