as per Jason, it is a fabulous little device with Spotify. Just make sure it is set to play at the highest quality it can. With spotify it is much better sound quality wise than I ever got using the iPad and Apple TV. It is also very reliable and I have not had one glitch on the play back all the times I have used it. There does not appear to be many services it works with at the moment in what I call headless mode, but you can I guess use it with a client on the laptop. At the moment I have not read about Tidal being a service it can work with (fortunately my excellent Moon Mind can do that, shameless plug).
Not sure it would replace AEX as I assume you also use that to do the routing in the home network.
In summary, nicely inconspicuous and works really well, so highly recommended
Not sure it would replace AEX as I assume you also use that to do the routing in the home network.
In summary, nicely inconspicuous and works really well, so highly recommended