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Phorus PR5 AirPlay + Bluetooth + Play-Fi receiver. How bad can it be?

ripmixburn

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When it came out five years ago, this streamer/DAC that apparently does Bluetooth, AirPlay and DTS Play-Fi from Phorus cost $179. Now it's $29.

http://phorus.com/pr5-receiver

Strangely, the name Phorus looked familiar because when I scanned my LAN recently I noticed that the Klipsch PowerGate vendor showed up as Phorus. IIRC, the Paradigm PW LINK was doing that too.

Amazon reviews seem mixed with under half giving it 5 star.

As painful as I realize the Play-Fi experience can be, would love to see if this thing has any useful application. Even with limited use $29 is a deal.

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Further to my claim… spotted this in TIDAL today when trying to do line-in streaming between the two Paradigm and Klipsch Play-Fi devices.
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