Maybe this issue is related to the 2i rather than the 2, but I have had no problems with mine whatsoever. Worth noting I bought mine from Spearit Sound at a discount (display unit) before the owner retired
See, that's the crazy thing: not a whole lot of people have had the same degree of just constant usability issues I had with the 2i.
- I have a QNAP NAS with a music library of about 570 albums or so. It would get through 3000 songs, send a loud pop through my speakers, and then just stop without actually adding the files. (A smaller shared folder would work, though!)
- It wouldn't read a USB hard drive, either
- Bluetooth option would sometimes disappear...and restarting doesn't actually give the device a clean restart, you have to unplug for 10 seconds at least to get it starting clean and getting the Bluetooth back.
- While this is my fault for not confirming, the lack of DLNA/UPnP support is a bummer, I would've kept it if it had reliable support for that
And there are clearly issues with the optical input. And I had all these issues in a 24-hour time period!
Yamaha WXC-50 is a worthy competitor to Node2i and also cheaper.
@amirm this one would be love to see measured!
https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual/wireless_streaming_amplifiers/wxc-50/index.html
I've been really tempted to pick up the WXC-50, but am gunshy after my Node 2i experience AND some of the reviews have been iffy on this. Not that the glowing Node 2i reviews helped me at all!