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Wireless speakers

  • 21-05-2014 8:18pm
    #1
    jamesbil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 662 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    What do you advise for streaming music to speakers?
    I want to cut down on all the physical clutter of cd's wires, speakers, seperates etc (possibly all for sale soon). I love them all, just not using them enough.

    I would like a speaker in 3 rooms, to be able to play from android phone/tablet.
    to be able to play from google music (not all access).

    I think the sonos is out of my budget (unless someone offers me 1K for all my gear;))

    Anyone tried the purs systems?
    Sensia 200d for the kitchen, Jongo T2 for the other rooms?

    I like the big noise from my custom speakers and my Mission 701's, do any wireles speakers deliver similar?


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  • #2
    akaSol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭akaSol


    Sadly the Sonos connect is your best option (€500 each) for Google music
    Unless you by a wifi / reciver and connect to a amp. ( raspberry pi and a cheap amp / speakers)
    On the plus side three pay 1's are €600... so...

    >Sol


  • #3
    Darwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,695 ✭✭✭Darwin


    Another possibility if you don't mind some setup work is to go down the airplay route. If you like big sounds, this Audssey dock is absolutely cracking value from amazon.de. Add an Apple airport express router to convert the speaker into an airplay device (this is the setup I have) or simple pick any existing airplay capable wireless speaker and then no need for the router. Next, install an airplay app such as this one or this one on your Android device. You will need to root your Android device for these apps to work. These apps will discover your airplay speakers and you can now stream your audio from any source (browser, or music app etc) to one speaker at a time or to all of them in sync. This setup takes a bit of tweaking to get it working well e.g. you will need a decent home router for airplay (e.g. asus rt-n66u) and a reasonably capable Android phone or tablet to handle the streaming. The benefit of this approach is that you are not locked into any one vendor like Sonos etc.

    Finally, from my own experience, you will get better results with a Windows 8 tablet and use spotify or some other service (this rules out google music of course). There is no messing with device rooting, and either Airfoil or Tuneblade are good choices as airplay streamers.


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