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Suggestion about cheap Media Renderer / music player to connect to existing amplifier


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Hi all,

 

I'm quite new to this field and I'm a bit confused by the large amount of products available on the market.

I'm looking for a Media Renderer / music player to connect to my existing Technics SU-V500 amplifier (which has an AUX input taking L/R audio channels with RCA connectors).

 

My requirements would be:

- cheap solution (something < 200€ !)

- it should be able to read music from an USB drive/key OR getting it from my LAN network (i.e., act as DLNA player I think),

audio format supported should be MP3 / FLAC and possibly others (e.g. MPEG4 .m4a, etc)

- it should have a nice interface, possibly an APP that I can install on my smartphone/tablet, that allows me to browse my music collection

 

Can you help me suggesting some solution?

 

So far I've seen Linn products but those are definitively out of my budget! :(

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Francesco

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For the desired price, you should be able to get a Denon DNP720ae.

 

A little above the price you could look at Marantz NA7004 or Pioneer N-30. You might also be able to find an end of line Cambridge Audio StreamMagic 6 (Mk 1).

 

Alternatively if you have an old laptop or similar you could use, something like iFi Nano iDSD or Audioquest DragonFly DAC would suit.

 

Eloise

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Thanks for the suggestion!

The "old laptop" solution indeed seems perhaps the best one in my case!

I found these prices:

 

 

* IFI - NANO IDSD DAC Price: $189.00

* Audioquest DragonFly DAC Price: $149.00

 

so they look to be in target! :-)

 

In the meanwhile somebody else suggested me to take a look to RuneAudio or VolumIO. Do you have any experience with these open source systems? A raspberry + hifiberry shield could be another cheap solution (of course I would need to use my smartphone or a tablet to send commands to the raspberry!!)...

 

Thanks!

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