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Elwood

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#271701 23-May-2020 07:09
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I’m looking to upgrade to a home hifi music streaming/network setup. Keen to broaden my music experience through using Spotify but also keep playing my existing digital music collection (currently on an iPod connected to my amplifier).

 

I’m assuming this requires a form of Internet-enabled hard disk component... grateful for any thoughts on what I should look for!

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  #2493186 27-May-2020 21:46
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Can you give us more of a steer on what you are after?

 

i.e. I assume you don't want to leave iPod as storage but want to run an app on your phone that allows you to control remotely from a server? I also assume all your existing music is in MP3 or ALAC on the iPod rather than e.g on a networked computer?

 

Do you have anything on the iPod that isn't on Spotify? If not, just use Spotify :-) at this point all you need is a way of getting Spotify on to your existing hifi. Lots of cheap Sonos Connects available on the second hand market at very low prices, as they don't run the yet-to-be -released Sonos 2 software, but they will continue to run Sonos One (which is still excellent) for the foreseeable. Connect Connect to your hifi by optical or coax and you are sorted.

 

Depending on your existing hifi, I guess you may want to spend between $50 and $5000+ on a streamer for Spotify. There's a huge range. If you have a really good hifi then the new Audiolab streamer is well priced for more audiophile gear; the Cambridge Audio ones similarly. Go nuts and buy a Naim ND5! More realistically there are streamers on sale at all sorts of places. A budget range would help :-)

 

If you don't want to use your existing amp and speakers it's easy: Wildash (on the usual market site ) have some well priced Bluesound units if you want a separate speaker, or get a $278 Sonos 1 SL,  or most of the above suggestions re Heos.

 

cheers

 

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