- Location
- Deep South of Cambridgeshire
As a spin-off de-drifting of the "what are you listening to now" topic...
How are people here streaming music to their speakers/headphones?
I was quite interested in upgrading from Spotify (albeit premium) to get better quality sound.
Only "quite" interested, because I'm not convinced that it will improve my life in any way. Firstly I'm rarely allowed to listen to music at the volume I would like as our house is usually occupied by others who don't share my tastes. Secondly chasing after the last bit or Hz seems to be missing the point.
However, as a techno-geek, I think I should at least consider my options.
Current system is based around a pair of AVI ADM9RS active speakers (which I love) fed by a Raumfeld connector (which is OK). Into this, is plugged an Audiolab 8000A amplifier which I use primarily as a source selector to choose between CD/DVD, Phono (MC) and any other possible analogue input (eg. TV).
It all works just fine to listen to Spotify, thanks to Spotfy connect running on the Raumfeld. It also offers Chromecast which I can use (if I'm lucky) to stream the output of YouTube from the Mac (but not the iPhone).
However, it doesn't really work with Airplay, which is a shame. OK, so I can have an INCREDIBLY convoluted path by using AppleTV and the TV itself to do a D2A a conversion before feeding back into the amplifier and through the Connector to the speakers, but that's just silly.
I'd like to see how Tidal or Amazon Music HD compares to Spotify, but I think at the moment, I don't have many elegant options to get that working.
Quite tempted by the old Yamaha WXC-50.
After all this, I'll most probably end up with just getting some decent headphones. Even then, I'm not sure what the best technology to use might be as bluetooth might cramp my style in one way, wired headphones in another.
So I'd be interested to hear what others are using!
How are people here streaming music to their speakers/headphones?
I was quite interested in upgrading from Spotify (albeit premium) to get better quality sound.
Only "quite" interested, because I'm not convinced that it will improve my life in any way. Firstly I'm rarely allowed to listen to music at the volume I would like as our house is usually occupied by others who don't share my tastes. Secondly chasing after the last bit or Hz seems to be missing the point.
However, as a techno-geek, I think I should at least consider my options.
Current system is based around a pair of AVI ADM9RS active speakers (which I love) fed by a Raumfeld connector (which is OK). Into this, is plugged an Audiolab 8000A amplifier which I use primarily as a source selector to choose between CD/DVD, Phono (MC) and any other possible analogue input (eg. TV).
It all works just fine to listen to Spotify, thanks to Spotfy connect running on the Raumfeld. It also offers Chromecast which I can use (if I'm lucky) to stream the output of YouTube from the Mac (but not the iPhone).
However, it doesn't really work with Airplay, which is a shame. OK, so I can have an INCREDIBLY convoluted path by using AppleTV and the TV itself to do a D2A a conversion before feeding back into the amplifier and through the Connector to the speakers, but that's just silly.
I'd like to see how Tidal or Amazon Music HD compares to Spotify, but I think at the moment, I don't have many elegant options to get that working.
Quite tempted by the old Yamaha WXC-50.
After all this, I'll most probably end up with just getting some decent headphones. Even then, I'm not sure what the best technology to use might be as bluetooth might cramp my style in one way, wired headphones in another.
So I'd be interested to hear what others are using!