I believe that the Squeezebox server coupled to a Raspberry Pi as a
player provides the best value in high end audio and the community
should be recommended for this colabrative approach that companies
cannot seem to provide.
I have a Excito/Bubba NAS which runs the server. It is very cheap to
run compared with a traditional PC and also serves as a POP server and
general server. I have a subscription to Deezer and also some 8000
tracks of stored music. I also use the system to listen to internet
radio - my favorite being Radio Paradise and BBC iPlayer to listen to
the 6:30 comedy half hour on radio 4 when I get home in an evening.
I like the way it catalogues the music and also using the excellent
multi-library plug-in allows my wife to choose only from her music. She
does need cover art though which is causing me a slight problem at the
moment.
The players are a Raspberry B+ with HiFi Berry DAC (picoreplayer)
playing into a valve amplifier with mission floor standing speakers. The
quality of the DAC is outstanding especially with FLAC music which for
its price is comparable to DACs priced in the hundreds to thousands of
£. I have squeezelite running on a small factor Ubuntu pc which is in
the kitchen.
I use squeezepad on the Ipad to control it all - very user friendly. So
it all connects very well together. The only real expense being the amp
( around £2000 and the speakers around £1000). I love listening to music
and this satisfies it very well. The sync option for multi-rooms is
brilliant for a large gathering.
I have provided a raspberry pi + hiberry DAC to each of the kids. They
don't store music but stream from Spotify ( the modern way). They have
mid range amps and speakers. About £500 for each bought secondhand - one
a solid state and the other Fatman hybrid. I have installed SqueezePlug
on the raspberrys which provides the server and player on the raspberry
- they both use Spotify. The ability to use Spotify playlists is a boom
for them and they control it all from their iphones. One of the kids
girlfriend is Russian and loves the ability to listen to Russian radio
stations.
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