YAMAHA R-N1000A Network Receiver Review

[ZolaIII]

The nice thing about the N1000a is all of those additional options. I'm also not sure it will be useless as a streamer in a decade. Maybe for apps like Tidal and Spotify, but I use MusicCast with an UPnP server and that technology hasn't really changed drastically in 20 years. Enjoy the convenience of everything the N1000 can do for now and add a streamer later if you ever need to.

Streamer with abilities it has/had will probably work to services it suports at least 15 years. It won't get new protocols or reach higher speed but what works now will probably work (-services which will die). After all it's stubborn Japanese brand. I have 10 years old R-N402D model (which I don't use anymore as I went analog inputs on A-S700 instead) but streaming services work to how they did before. Even old embedded SoC on this old ones has enough bandwidth for DSD 64 local streaming over WiFi and hardly you will ever need more for PCM.

 

[Timcognito]

Streamer with abilities it has/had will probably work to services it suports at least 15 years. It won't get new protocols or reach higher speed but what works now will probably work (-services which will die). After all it's stubborn Japanese brand. I have 10 years old R-N402D model (which I don't use anymore as I went analog inputs on A-S700 instead) but streaming services work to how they did before. Even old embedded SoC on this old ones has enough bandwidth for DSD 64 local streaming over WiFi and hardly you will ever need more for PCM.

We only have to look at movie and TV providers to know where audio streaming is going. As a result I'm keeping my media, even the Lp's (uh vinyl) I rarely play.