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IMHO, 80's and 90's Japanese hardware gave me a much better experience than anything from a software company. For example, everytime I go to use my Sonos box, i
by willtim 9y ago
IMHO, 80's and 90's Japanese hardware gave me a much better experience than anything from a software company. For example, everytime I go to use my Sonos box, it wants to update the app, the firmware, or both. The constant software updates fix bugs and security holes, but they also bring unwanted features, frequently interface changes and attempts to upsell more of the same.
I still have a Rotel poweramp from 1985 in my front room which the Sonos is plugged into, working flawlessly. There's no chance my Sonos box will still be working past 2050.
- staunch 9y agoThen why not use your 1985 Rotel poweramp instead of the Sonos? If you added the functionality of the Sonos to the Rotel poweramp, it would have the same complexity-based problems.
- willtim 9y agoObviously I wanted the convenience of streaming an MP3 to the amp versus using a CD player. I disagree that all solutions to this problem need the same complexity inherent in the Sonos and that the user experience could not be improved.
- lloeki 9y agoKeep things modular: get something like a Raspberry Pi with a USB soundcard and plug that into your good ol' amp. Using that with shairport-sync to cast to a Woburn speaker gives me more than adequate results and I'm not even using a USB DAC nor digital audio output via HDMI, just the Pi's basic line-out. https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync
- willtim 9y agoAwesome project. Thanks for the link!
- modzu 9y agothat's just sick (the power amp). drools