Kaushik and Steevie:
The ones mentioned by you are just internet radios that can connect wire/wireless to your router, with a decent phone jack, and built-in speakers. Remember, you can never connect an external DAC to the radios you both mentioned and simultaneously to an integrated amp., and they also dont have a digital or optical out.
What Helium wants is to connect his Beresford and his Lyrita to an standalone internet player, so that he can listen radios through his hifi setup via a digtial out. And, IMO, the SQ from SB or Sonos cannot be equalled to these standalone internet radios available at half the price.
And later, if Helium buys a pc and wants to take the pc-music route, the SB3 can come as a boom.
Or, if you don't want to connect an external DAC or digital out, etc., then you have....
PURE EVOKE Flow DAB Internet Radio: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo >>> i've heard this and its excellent for the money, an award winner too.
The ones mentioned by you are just internet radios that can connect wire/wireless to your router, with a decent phone jack, and built-in speakers. Remember, you can never connect an external DAC to the radios you both mentioned and simultaneously to an integrated amp., and they also dont have a digital or optical out.
What Helium wants is to connect his Beresford and his Lyrita to an standalone internet player, so that he can listen radios through his hifi setup via a digtial out. And, IMO, the SQ from SB or Sonos cannot be equalled to these standalone internet radios available at half the price.
And later, if Helium buys a pc and wants to take the pc-music route, the SB3 can come as a boom.
Or, if you don't want to connect an external DAC or digital out, etc., then you have....
PURE EVOKE Flow DAB Internet Radio: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo >>> i've heard this and its excellent for the money, an award winner too.
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