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What are your wife's use cases?
What's the Yamaha equivalent, and what does it deliver through the proprietary equivalent?
Which devices are you trying to consolidate?
I would like to consolidate my CD player and streamer in one unit. The wife will stream pandora and music off of her iPhone when she works out. I may have found another CD Player which is a foreign model from Yamaha called the CD-N301 and am waiting to hear back from the dealer to be certain it is compatible with US electric.
A media server with DLNA support would be my preferred method, but if you insist on using a smartphone as a source, use Bluetooth.
At least two options with Bluetooth:
Option 1 - Keep your existing disc player and add a Bluetooth receiver like the Audioengine B1.
(https://www.audiostream.com/content/audioengine-b1-bluetooth-music-receiver)
Option 2 - Purchase a Samsung UBD-M9500 with 2-way Bluetooth, and also a native Pandora app.
For me, when I am doing critical listening I do stream audio via DLNA direcly to the DAC. This is not about me though.
I have a Marantz receiver and Apple TV in separate systems and the wife knows how to use AirPlay on those. Not going to try and create an exception where she uses AirPlay on two of the three systems and bluetooth on the other. It makes it needlessly complex.
That is why I am looking for a unit like this. I could add an Apple TV to the system or a Marantz NA8005 or something like that but I am thinking it would make my life easier and be more streamlined if I had one instead of two boxes plugged into the DAC.
It looks like there is a Yamaha CD-N301 which is a product available overseas which has the featureset I am looking for. I have an e-mail out to a retailer to see if if has a US compatible power supply.
Go on Amazon and search on the Audiocast M5.
Since I don't AirPlay, this is an awareness post - not a recommendation.
For that price I can try it pretty risk free. Interesting. Certainly an inexpensive solution. Thanks for sharing.
I found the Primare CD35 Prisma which seems like a pretty spectacular unit from a feature set and it is AirPlay enabled but it is $3K based on pricing from Analog Seductions in the UK.
It feels like there are a couple of "Network CD Players" on the market. I found one from Teac, there is the Yamaha, now this. I wonder if I am just on the leading edge of thinking in this space and this will become a more popular product.
...about Chromecast for your use case:
https://www.audiostream.com/content/googles-chromecast-audio-35-streamer
What did you end up doing?
I got a PS Audio Directstream DAC with Bridge II. I traded my Raidho X-1s for it and it is Freakin' spectacular.
As it turns out Marantz has just introduced a CD Player/Streamer so my hunch is I will sell my current CD player and get that Marantz unit and run it to the DSD via Digital Coax and for PC based streaming I will use the Bridge II. Looks like I asked this question two months too soon.
...AirPlay no longer necessary.
;-)
An old or new iOS device with Apple Lightning to USB powered adaptor to something like a Behringer UFO 202 to RCA to the CD player. Air Chord 2 will send out Airplay 2. A Mac with a CD reader will work too.