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"The speaker itself streams and plays the music, and the Mac simply tells the speaker which song to play...." I was unaware that you could now get speakers wit

"The speaker itself streams and plays the music, and the Mac simply tells the speaker which song to play...." I was unaware that you could now get speakers with that kind of horsepower built-in. What's their typical use-case?

latchkey 8y ago
Expensive, but looks like they do a lot: https://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio_visual/speaker_systems/nx-n500/ https://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio_visual/speaker_systems...
- codetrotter 8y ago
  Alternatively you could buy something like the Yamaha MusicCast WXAD-10. It’s a little Spotify Connect enabled box that you plug your speakers into and it has a price tag of about 140 EUR in Europe ($160). I haven’t tested it or listened to it myself but the first and only review I checked was favorable. https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual/accessories/wxad-10/index.html https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual/accessori... https://www.avforums.com/review/yamaha-wxad-10-musiccast-adapter-review.13581 https://www.avforums.com/review/yamaha-wxad-10-musiccast-ada... Likewise, a lot of AV receivers come with Spotify Connect these days. For example, Onkyo TX-NR585 ($380) which was recommended by CNET. https://www.onkyousa.com/Products/model.php?m=TX-NR585&class=Receiver&source=prodClass https://www.onkyousa.com/Products/model.php?m=TX-NR585&class... https://www.cnet.com/topics/av-receivers/best-av-receivers/ https://www.cnet.com/topics/av-receivers/best-av-receivers/ That’s not to say that one should buy an AV receiver for this purpose alone. I only mentioned it because (a) some people might have a Spotify Connect capable receiver already without being aware of it or (b) they are planning on buying a receiver anyway and so might wish to consider this alongside their other criteria.
- pingiun 8y ago
  You could also use a chromecast audio, which should work with spotify: https://www.spotify.com/en/chromecastaudio/ https://www.spotify.com/en/chromecastaudio/
  - tracker1 8y ago
    It does... also got a google home mini that I use with it (was bundled in with something else I was buying). The voice recognition seems to be a bit better with Alexa though.
leoedin 8y ago
That's the path all streaming devices are going down now. Chromecast is literally a SoC - to stream web content you just pass across a URL and it handles the rest. You can get a range of speakers with it built in.
Mindwipe 8y ago
Quite a lot of sub-$100 speakers have Google Assistant built in and can operate entirely on a standalone basis pulling music in from Spotify with no other device involved.

latchkey 8y ago

Expensive, but looks like they do a lot: https://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio_visual/speaker_systems/nx-n500/ https://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio_visual/speaker_systems...

codetrotter 8y ago
Alternatively you could buy something like the Yamaha MusicCast WXAD-10. It’s a little Spotify Connect enabled box that you plug your speakers into and it has a price tag of about 140 EUR in Europe ($160). I haven’t tested it or listened to it myself but the first and only review I checked was favorable. https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual/accessories/wxad-10/index.html https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual/accessori... https://www.avforums.com/review/yamaha-wxad-10-musiccast-adapter-review.13581 https://www.avforums.com/review/yamaha-wxad-10-musiccast-ada... Likewise, a lot of AV receivers come with Spotify Connect these days. For example, Onkyo TX-NR585 ($380) which was recommended by CNET. https://www.onkyousa.com/Products/model.php?m=TX-NR585&class=Receiver&source=prodClass https://www.onkyousa.com/Products/model.php?m=TX-NR585&class... https://www.cnet.com/topics/av-receivers/best-av-receivers/ https://www.cnet.com/topics/av-receivers/best-av-receivers/ That’s not to say that one should buy an AV receiver for this purpose alone. I only mentioned it because (a) some people might have a Spotify Connect capable receiver already without being aware of it or (b) they are planning on buying a receiver anyway and so might wish to consider this alongside their other criteria.
pingiun 8y ago
You could also use a chromecast audio, which should work with spotify: https://www.spotify.com/en/chromecastaudio/ https://www.spotify.com/en/chromecastaudio/
- tracker1 8y ago
  It does... also got a google home mini that I use with it (was bundled in with something else I was buying). The voice recognition seems to be a bit better with Alexa though.

leoedin 8y ago

That's the path all streaming devices are going down now. Chromecast is literally a SoC - to stream web content you just pass across a URL and it handles the rest. You can get a range of speakers with it built in.

Mindwipe 8y ago

Quite a lot of sub-$100 speakers have Google Assistant built in and can operate entirely on a standalone basis pulling music in from Spotify with no other device involved.