slim01
Active Member
Picked up a Marantz Sr6010. Bye bye 12 year old onkyo (tx-sr508).
Marantz is 7 years old also however has Atmos / Bluetooth to play with, +was only £300.
I'm mainly using with an HTPC (iTunes, soundcloud & YouTube +gaming), but I enjoy the convenience of amazon music via echo dot, esp whilst working/cooking and I'm wondering...
1) what exactly is required to control the receiver with alexa (on/off/switch mode etc)?
-I've read what HiFi article and it only really mentions yamaha musicast.
-I see the newer sr6012 is "Alexa compatible" but with an update, so guessing there's no mic? So Echo dot needed.
-Do the newer denons/marantz actually have a mic built in, no echo dot needed, or they just have like a new dlna that alexa can control?
2) I'm guessing using avr's DAC by sending Bluetooth to avr is better than echo's 3.5mm / phono out?
3) Can the avr's Spotify connect or Airplay enable me to play my iTunes playlists somehow? I have 15+ years of them.
I've heard you can upload iTunes playlists to Spotify.
Option b) guess I could copy iTunes playlists to my phone but man oh man iTunes and android do NOT like eachother. Can't even copy/paste, the transfer apps I've used always have errors. Suggestions?
Currently also trying to get Hi-def audio over hdmi rather than using HTPC soundcards spdif 5.1 (dolby digital live) which is complicated...
Yeah a sr6015 with 120hz VRR / allm passthrough would be great but £1150 is a hard pill to swallow when you can just plug gpu into TV.
Thanks in advance!
P.s tidal / amazon music and every other stream app I've tried seems crap for dj sets and techno in general.
Marantz is 7 years old also however has Atmos / Bluetooth to play with, +was only £300.
I'm mainly using with an HTPC (iTunes, soundcloud & YouTube +gaming), but I enjoy the convenience of amazon music via echo dot, esp whilst working/cooking and I'm wondering...
1) what exactly is required to control the receiver with alexa (on/off/switch mode etc)?
-I've read what HiFi article and it only really mentions yamaha musicast.
-I see the newer sr6012 is "Alexa compatible" but with an update, so guessing there's no mic? So Echo dot needed.
-Do the newer denons/marantz actually have a mic built in, no echo dot needed, or they just have like a new dlna that alexa can control?
2) I'm guessing using avr's DAC by sending Bluetooth to avr is better than echo's 3.5mm / phono out?
3) Can the avr's Spotify connect or Airplay enable me to play my iTunes playlists somehow? I have 15+ years of them.
I've heard you can upload iTunes playlists to Spotify.
Option b) guess I could copy iTunes playlists to my phone but man oh man iTunes and android do NOT like eachother. Can't even copy/paste, the transfer apps I've used always have errors. Suggestions?
Currently also trying to get Hi-def audio over hdmi rather than using HTPC soundcards spdif 5.1 (dolby digital live) which is complicated...
Yeah a sr6015 with 120hz VRR / allm passthrough would be great but £1150 is a hard pill to swallow when you can just plug gpu into TV.
Thanks in advance!
P.s tidal / amazon music and every other stream app I've tried seems crap for dj sets and techno in general.