alto
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I'm looking to set up a streamer in my living room in the not-so-distant future and have been looking into my options.
The setup in the room hosts a Marantz NR1605 which powers my speakers and takes input from a HTPC and record player today.
The streamer would most likely connect to the NR1605 using optical or coax, and the music sources would be files from my local NAS and Spotify Connect, so DLNA/UPnP support via an app like BubbleUPNP is nice.
My thinking so far is that I would do one of
RPi4 + Pi2AES
The setup in the room hosts a Marantz NR1605 which powers my speakers and takes input from a HTPC and record player today.
The streamer would most likely connect to the NR1605 using optical or coax, and the music sources would be files from my local NAS and Spotify Connect, so DLNA/UPnP support via an app like BubbleUPNP is nice.
My thinking so far is that I would do one of
- Set up a RPi4 based streamer with a Pi2AES hat running Volumio or moOde
- Set up an off-the-shelf streamer like the Wiim Pro
RPi4 + Pi2AES
- The RPi4 + Pi2AES has excellent sound quality from what I've gathered so far
- I get to install open source software of my choice, i.e. Volumio or moOde to begin with
- Both the RPi4 and Pi2AES are unfortunately very hard to come by, especially the Pi2AES which is currently sold out
- The total cost of setting this up today would be closer to 500 euros I think, making the value proposition difficult
- Seems to have a lot of satisfied users, though I'm not sure if audio quality is on par with the Pi2AES
- I won't have any control of the software running on the device, leading to the next point;
- The device has a built in microphone and support for Alexa / Google Assistant etc, which I abhor, I might want to physically disable this.
- The app seems nice and from what I understand is updated rather frequently.
- The total cost for the Wiim Pro setup is about 200 euros with shipping, significantly less than the RPi4 + Pi2AES