Standalone music streamer/player
Standalone music streamer/player
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Miserablegit

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4,393 posts

132 months

Tuesday 12th November 2019
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Looking for some advice please for son's room. A few years ago it would have been easy- I'd have bought a sonos speaker and my son could have borrowed a CR100 controller from the house stash of them.
Since Sonos notified me they were bricking the CR100's I've had to block Sonos updates/access via my home router. This also stops me adding new kit to the system and is the reason I've gone with Hi-rez players from other suppliers when adding to the home system.

I'm now looking for a reasonably priced all-in-one streaming unit to play tracks from the home NAS that, ideally, won't need a 'phone or tablet to access.
Does anyone have any recommendations please? I've already discounted alexa/google as they are aimed at streaming paid-for services rather than from a domestic NAS and the sound is poor on every Alexa I've owned (three different types up to and including the Show)
thanks in advance

Winterway

1,583 posts

208 months

Thursday 14th November 2019
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Denon Ceol N10?

jontykint

978 posts

152 months

Thursday 14th November 2019
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whats reasonable??

£200 or £500 ?

jontykint

978 posts

152 months

Thursday 14th November 2019
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You could get an old iPod touch as a remote maybe?
|f the issue is children having access to interwebz / games etc, set up family sharing and just disable everything except the SONOS app ?