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The toy

Posted Nov 20, 2012 23:06 UTC (Tue) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: The toy by corbet
Parent article: Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts

Since I need neither synchronous output from multiple speakers nor any kind of Web streaming, my audio system consists of a heap of music on the home server, a couple of old Debian-ized NSLU2 bricks I've had lying around with MPD as clients, and a small script that builds the MPD database from MusicBrainz metadata. Total cost 1/8th of a Sonos Connect.
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The toy

Posted Nov 21, 2012 14:26 UTC (Wed) by imitev (guest, #60045) [Link]

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If you want (very) good sound quality then you need a good DAC, and these are not cheap, although they're not as expensive as they used to be. But if you listen to low/medium bitrate compressed music, then yes, any cheap "plug" computer with an integrated soundcard would do. IMO an old netbook/nettop with a decent USB DAC/soundcard is the way to go if you don't want to buy specialized hw.

On a side note I've always preferred Logitech Squeeze * products over Sonos, but I guess I should have gone the Sonos way: Logitech EOL'ed their product range a few weeks ago :(