Peter Lanky
Established Member
Have have a second hifi set up in a spare room, which is where we spend evenings overlooking the garden in summer. There is no need for the quality of a Linn Streamer or even anything coming close.
The box on top (in the photo) is an iEast Soundstream, costing about £45 which connects wirelessly to my network and gives me access to my entire music collection, playing through the Amptastic amp below which is more than adequate to power my Wharfedale Diamond 10.4 speakers. Great so far except . . . the Soundstream does not support gapless playback.
Now the main problem I have is that few people seem to understand what gapless playback is, including many owners of hifi shops and manufacturers of equipment, so when I ask the question of a piece of kit I get blank looks, or else they try to guess what it means and give me a bullshit answer. For anyone who is unfamiliar with gapless playback, it is relevant to continuous albums such as 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' or live albums, where the gap between tracks on a digital file is invisible. If gapless is not supported, a gap of about half a second is inserted between tracks which is very annoying.
What I want is to find a similar piece of kit to the iEast soundstream, but which supports gapless and doesn't cost too much. Has anyone come across such a piece of kit?
The box on top (in the photo) is an iEast Soundstream, costing about £45 which connects wirelessly to my network and gives me access to my entire music collection, playing through the Amptastic amp below which is more than adequate to power my Wharfedale Diamond 10.4 speakers. Great so far except . . . the Soundstream does not support gapless playback.
Now the main problem I have is that few people seem to understand what gapless playback is, including many owners of hifi shops and manufacturers of equipment, so when I ask the question of a piece of kit I get blank looks, or else they try to guess what it means and give me a bullshit answer. For anyone who is unfamiliar with gapless playback, it is relevant to continuous albums such as 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' or live albums, where the gap between tracks on a digital file is invisible. If gapless is not supported, a gap of about half a second is inserted between tracks which is very annoying.
What I want is to find a similar piece of kit to the iEast soundstream, but which supports gapless and doesn't cost too much. Has anyone come across such a piece of kit?