August MR230B ... Any good?

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MallyMad

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I'm not expecting miracles for £11 but do these work? Can I just beam a tune to it from my ipad? Think I'm going to try this out and if it works out I might move up to Sonos.

Also,the mrs wants something for movies and is looking at a PS3 for that - is there anything that can combine the two?

Be gentle please - I'm new to all this ipad stuff.

 

hermit

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Chris, I have not heard this device but I did use something similar from Belkin to send podcasts from my phone to my system. Ok for voice but not great with music.

I think to get the best sound from an ipad you need to connect it to a usb dac using the Apple Camera Conversion Kit. Depending on the dac you may also need a powered usb hub. This page from Ifi might be helpful - http://www.ifi-audio.com/en/improve_ipad.html

As far as combining music and movies, the obvious solution is small form factor HTPC or laptop feeding a usb dac. Your ipad would be a great controller for this setup. I use a £100 s/h dual core laptop controlled by a smartphone.

 

vacdac

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A fair few Blueray/DVD players + PVR's seem to support streaming of video/audio so this could be another route, does your playstation also allow this?. As Paul has previously mentioned this can be done from a HTPC or laptop or indeed a plain vanilla PC too:^.........Of course many NAS's also support this, although for streaming audio to a UPnP/DLNA renderer this does seem to require a higher spec NAS to work well based on my own experience.

Synology NAS's also support use as a local player for streaming of your music library & full access to internet radio + supports 'Hi-Rez' audio @ up to 24bit/96khz*. (*I'd expect higher rez support for up to 24/192 may be possible through a plugin from Syno or a third party developer at some point in the future.) All that is needed is a suitable USB DAC or USB/SPdif converter if you have a DAC already that doesn't have a suitable USB input/USB drivers.

You can add additional music renderers/players throughout the house so multi-room options are there a la SBT/SONOS*.(*SBT/Sonos or DLNA/UPnP are all supported with relevant proprietary/third party S/W packages from Syno's package centre, which is a one click download process. :^ ) All of this can be controlled from a Smartphone/Tablet & these can also be used as additional portable players too using headphones or into another amp/active speaks/ghetto blaster etc. :rockin:

 
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MallyMad

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Yeah I saw that and really fancied it. Got speakers coming this month though so if its still there next month I ya very well go for it. Have to say though its all getting a bit complicated - can see myself sticking to a decent cable out the headphone socket. Only thing about that is that everyone stepping over it all the time gives me a bloody heart attack!!

Many thanks for all the info as well!

 

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