Steve Stifler
Prominent Member
SWIMBO likes to listen to her CDs when she is in the kitchen or chilling out in our open plan downstairs. We had a small one box Pure CD/radio and we found disks started to skip after some years. We replaced that with a Roberts Cube CD radio, and that started skipping after about a year. She's put up with using just the radio but would like to find a way to enjoy CDs. I suspect it might be the change of atmosphere in the kitchen when cooking etc. Our disks play on other players.
Disappointingly, we looked at a different type of Pure Radio in a shop today, and the CD couldn't read any disks that worked fine in other units on demonstration. Doesn't inspire any confidence!!!
Unfortunately the OH can't get how to operate the AVR and BD player. So looking ideally for a simple solution. Could you answer some questions please? I was interested in Sonos until they announced ending support for some of their recent hardware.
1. Would it be simple as getting a CD laser cleaning disk to fix the Roberts?
2. Buy a Harmony 950 and set up a "Play CD" activity that powers on the AVR, BD, player and opens the tray?
3. She could stream music from her iPad. If using a bluetooth speaker located in the kitchen, what sort of range would work (so the iPad is kept out of the kitchen)?
I looked at the Naim Muso but its a big box and rather pricy, same goes for a Atom or older burner/player combinations. The Naim app looked OK though. There is another possibility by burning her CD collection eg DBPoweramp or other software. I looked at the Brennan B2 but wasn't keen on the interface. I would need to get a CD writer so these could go on a portable hard drive. I'd go for FLAC. I don't really want to have a Synology or similar running 24/7 (environment and all that). A simple interface using her phone/ipad would be the best, but I don't know what.
4. There is so much around that streams - what suggestions would you make for the streaming option? I'd prefer not to use iTunes as I understand that doesn't support FLAC.
Would really appreciate your insights and suggestions/advice please.
Thank you.
Disappointingly, we looked at a different type of Pure Radio in a shop today, and the CD couldn't read any disks that worked fine in other units on demonstration. Doesn't inspire any confidence!!!
Unfortunately the OH can't get how to operate the AVR and BD player. So looking ideally for a simple solution. Could you answer some questions please? I was interested in Sonos until they announced ending support for some of their recent hardware.
1. Would it be simple as getting a CD laser cleaning disk to fix the Roberts?
2. Buy a Harmony 950 and set up a "Play CD" activity that powers on the AVR, BD, player and opens the tray?
3. She could stream music from her iPad. If using a bluetooth speaker located in the kitchen, what sort of range would work (so the iPad is kept out of the kitchen)?
I looked at the Naim Muso but its a big box and rather pricy, same goes for a Atom or older burner/player combinations. The Naim app looked OK though. There is another possibility by burning her CD collection eg DBPoweramp or other software. I looked at the Brennan B2 but wasn't keen on the interface. I would need to get a CD writer so these could go on a portable hard drive. I'd go for FLAC. I don't really want to have a Synology or similar running 24/7 (environment and all that). A simple interface using her phone/ipad would be the best, but I don't know what.
4. There is so much around that streams - what suggestions would you make for the streaming option? I'd prefer not to use iTunes as I understand that doesn't support FLAC.
Would really appreciate your insights and suggestions/advice please.
Thank you.