PM: Wrath audio experts. I require some advice.

We have a very messy conglomeration of music listening options that I'm thinking of updating.
To start with, me and Jools have loads of CDs. I've put most of Jools and some of mine on iPlayer (this is a continuing process) to download to her iPod Classic. I have quite a lot of Classical CDs that I still like to play as CDs. We have a cheapish bluetooth iPod docking station in the kitchen, a cheap digital radio in the kitchen and a non bluetooth docking speaker in the lounge. I have a decent quality 15 year old Dennon CD player with decent speakers in a cupboard not being used.
What I think I want is something I can connect to my Denon that would replace my laptop as a repository for our music and as a high res (CD quality is fine) streaming device to use in the lounge. I'd then like to be able to bluetooth it to a better speaker in the kitchen and possibly upstairs, although not at the same time.
We don't relly need the telly to be part of it as we don't watch a lot and the telly sound quality is fine when we do.
What sort of devices do I start to look at?

Posted By: CB41 on October 31st 2017 at 15:24:10

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PM: Wrath audio experts. I require some advice. (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 31, 15:24:10
- I've got this and am just get Sonosctk go with it (General Chat) - shortfatb, Oct 31, 16:49:57
  - Yes. (n/m) (General Chat) - shortfatb, Oct 31, 17:03:29
  - I was thinking about one of those. Can you back it up to a normal hard drive? (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 31, 16:54:55
    - Sorry, yes, and you can play it through iTiunes as an external device (General Chat) - shortfatb, Oct 31, 17:06:21
      - excellent, now I just need to work out how to get one shipped to me (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 31, 17:09:01
        
        If you do get one let me know. There's a few tips to make it work well for you (General Chat) - shortfatb, Oct 31, 17:27:28
        
        thanks, I will, though it won't be for a while unless somone comes to visit (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 31, 17:33:33
- you can upload your music library to Google for free (up to 50,000 tracks) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 31, 16:25:07
- Well...... (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Oct 31, 16:04:39
  - Yeah, had that down as one option (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 31, 16:08:02
- Beaten to it, Sonos is the simplest if you re not into higher end audiophile stuff (General Chat) - John in Texas, Oct 31, 15:53:03
- Sonos (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Oct 31, 15:34:04
  - Will it convert to analogue when connected to my Dennon? (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 31, 16:14:12
    - no idea (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Oct 31, 16:17:46
  - Will that also hold my own music library? (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 31, 15:52:32
    - ditch it (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Oct 31, 16:00:55
      - Want to do both. Surely there are streaming music players with hard drives (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 31, 16:05:50
      - but if you don't want to ditch your ripped MP'3 from your CD's (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Oct 31, 16:04:49
    - works best of a network or NAS (n/m) (General Chat) - John in Texas, Oct 31, 15:54:00
      - Right, now you've introduced another element. Is a NAS just a (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 31, 16:06:50
        
        We're a Sonos family (General Chat) - camcan, Oct 31, 16:15:00
        
        External drive attached to Network but doesn't need computer running to access (n/m) (General Chat) - John in Texas, Oct 31, 16:14:36
  - bless you (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Oct 31, 15:36:18
- Oh, and I am GIYLBing but there is a vast amount of info out (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 31, 15:29:09

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