budget streamer

After having tested various options and setups, I finally have a fairly good idea of what I want. I aspire to now bring everything into one streamer build. This will test my abilities in woodworking, metal crafting, soldering and programming. Style: I envision an encasing in the style of a...

Hi, For my living room setup, I used to have a laptop going to a topping DAC and then an amp to the speakers. Now with my young kids getting into music they use Amazon Echo and Google Nest Mini tons as it is easy with the voice commands for them to play all the music they want. So over time...

Hey, I am considering buying a pair of Genelec 8030C as my first quality speakers but i want to be able to stream to it. So i wonder whats the best solution is for a streamer Max budget $150.

Hello all , here’s one request for the swarm intelligence. I have noticed the Swedish- Chinese Audio Pro Link 2 alternative to the WIIM Pro streamer in the WIIM pro thread. I’ve seen it touched briefly as well in DARKO’s year’s end product portfolio achieving visibly less enthusiasm than the...

Longtime ASR lurker here -- couldn't live without the great reviews and community advice -- but first-time seller, though I have feedback on other sites and forums. This is a fully featured digital streamer and preamplifer with Anthem ARC room correction built in. You can stream via the app...

ATM.trialing the Bluesound Powernode N330 and as a consequence dropped into armirm's thread of the Bluesound NODE "2021" and came to wonder if the DAC in the N330 performs as flawed as in the Node, since both consist of PCM5343 I assume it would be the case. Can someone test the performance of...

Hello audio experts, Lovely to join this group! Kudos to @amirm for putting together this excellent website. Certainly an audio nerds' paradise! While there are innumerable off the shelf options out there for streamers, I still have a bug to build my own with what I think is a very promising...

Hello, I am a new member looking for some advice. Have a DIY new pair of HIVI/Swans 2.2A speakers and now need a small system to power them (sub $750 - less is best). The room size is about 20 feet square. I will be mostly wifi streaming music, using Bluetooth or connecting a USB SSD with Flac...

I have got a Lighting to USB 3 Camera Adapter with a used iPhone and a USB DAC. After connecting them like the picture below it works fine, the iphone works as a music source. I'm wondering if there is an app that can turn the iphone into an Airplay receiver? I will be happy if this works.