The Squeezeboxes are dying, one by one.
I can't remember the model, but one that is a self contained unit with a couple of speakers is totally non-responsive.
The little streaming only one is now intermittent, and the display has a distinct flicker when the unit is in standby, it flashes into life then goes back to sleep.
I've also got one of those customised ones from someone here (or maybe from Wigwam, I can't remember), where there's a separate power supply and the box is suped up and lives in it's own shoebox. A nice piece of work tbh. That is also starting to suffer from the flicker and as it's in my eyeline while I'm 'working' I just have to turn it off. This one is the one that needs to be replaced first.
They've all been good servants, and for relatively cheap consumer electronics have definitely been excellent vfm. I shall be giving them a proper viking burial in due course.
So I'm probably looking for a replacement streamer to sit with the rest of my main unit, I don't want to spend Naim/Linn money, nor do I want to endlessly **** about with stuff I don't understand. I just want something that will pull files from my iMac, stream Spotify, I might even try Tidal/similar.
Something like the Cambridge Audio Azur 851N. What other units are worth considering?
I can't remember the model, but one that is a self contained unit with a couple of speakers is totally non-responsive.
The little streaming only one is now intermittent, and the display has a distinct flicker when the unit is in standby, it flashes into life then goes back to sleep.
I've also got one of those customised ones from someone here (or maybe from Wigwam, I can't remember), where there's a separate power supply and the box is suped up and lives in it's own shoebox. A nice piece of work tbh. That is also starting to suffer from the flicker and as it's in my eyeline while I'm 'working' I just have to turn it off. This one is the one that needs to be replaced first.
They've all been good servants, and for relatively cheap consumer electronics have definitely been excellent vfm. I shall be giving them a proper viking burial in due course.
So I'm probably looking for a replacement streamer to sit with the rest of my main unit, I don't want to spend Naim/Linn money, nor do I want to endlessly **** about with stuff I don't understand. I just want something that will pull files from my iMac, stream Spotify, I might even try Tidal/similar.
Something like the Cambridge Audio Azur 851N. What other units are worth considering?