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Can anyone recommend to me a good quality Internet radio system. I saw one once in a friends house where he had a key pad and accessed the stations from the list ... He had 2 speakers as part of the system on top of the units via wi fi. ....Sounded really good. Have looked on Amazon and can't find anything similar..
Any help of anything anyone thinks may fit the bill would be appreciated.. Thank you in advance..
Any help of anything anyone thinks may fit the bill would be appreciated.. Thank you in advance..
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www.quasarradio.uk
It's not too heavy and when they have presenters on they don't talk too much.
(Assuming you like The Stones, Dylan, Motown, Foo Fighters etc)
Strangely enough that is exactly what I intend to do with mine.
Mine's more budget orientated, only working part time I've had to combine devices.
I bought a tablet - a Hudl 2 from Tesco. It's actually good value for money - a 1.6 GHz Intel quad-core processor, and a HDMI screen for only £129... Yes, I'd like an iPad or Nexus 7, but they're a bit more than £129...
The point is that a tablet runs internet radio. There are many internet radio apps including Radioplayer and the BBC iPlayer radio app. Stations not participating in a radio player app can simply be played via the web browser.
There are web pages, images and text to go with the station being listened to. Obviously, after a couple of minutes inactivity, the tablet screen blanks to extend battery life, but the radio keeps playing. The tablet can be connected to a hifi via the headphone socket, by a mini USB socket, via HDMI socket or by Bluetooth.. that's another thing - quite popular now are Bluetooth speakers. It is even possible to get a Bluetooth adaptor for your hifi, so no wires.
Also I've discontinued broadband via BT because I was paying £29 a month for a BT phone contract, and never using the phone, so like an increasing number of people, I use wireless broadband. £20 a month for 15 Gig allowance ( which I cannot stay awake long enough to use up ). I'm with EE and the cost includes a free Osprey wifi router ( about the size of a box of matches and transmits wifi to all rooms of the cottage - amazing ! ).
So by all means buy a separate internet radio, as others recommend. But maybe - just MAYBE - you might want to try a tablet, get some bluetooth connectivity on the "audio" end, and run an internet radio app...
Good luck anyway ! Happy listening whatever solution you go for !
Didn't work well on the Home Hub 3 at all. It's now the same as when I first bought it. Excellent. radio now.
Revo used to sell the Mondo which was similar but discontinued it?
http://www.pure.com/product/jongo-a240-vl-62148/
Works like a dream.
Sounds like an interesting route to go.
I've used tunein with my ipad, but too expensive to use as an inet only setup, although a very practical and effective arrangement.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Home-Internet-Radio-Support-Tens-of-android-internet-radio-station-like-pandora-live-365-siriusxm-internet/1561988559.html
As I said before I have ordered an internet radio tuner unit for a permanent connection to a hifi system but up until now I have been using my old Samsung smartphone as a tuner, connected to the hifi amp with a jack to phono lead, incidentally bought for a pound from Poundland.
This looks like an interesting concept indeed. I've never seen anything like this before. The plus side is that it uses Android, so it can be used for much more than listening to radio. The guy in the comments section on that website is saying that the radio is very slow due to the fact it only has a single core processor, and the other guy is saying that he could not install TuneIn app on it. I also doubt the sound quality can be up to par with Roberts and Pure radios. I love the concept of the device, I'm not sure about the execution, but to be fair, I've never used it myself so I can only assume.
Oldies paradise is a good one. Plays a wide variety of oldies.
http://www.oldiesparadise.com
http://www.whathifi.com/roberts/stream-93i/review
I have a Roberts Stream 83i and it is very good, with great sound quality. It's only let down by having only 5 direct presets for radio stations as this is never enough!
I use a Hudl connected to my Sony HiFi by way of a cable plugged into the headphone socket. I use it to listen to Spotify. The sound quality is excellent.
I use an old 5" tablet as a bedside clock radio, I use the SquareHome Launcher (paid version) to display a clock, four radio apps, and widgets for BBC stations. It's not perfect by any means, but it's effective and attractive.
The BBC iPlayer app always reverting to portrait is the biggest gripe, along with not having a single sleep-timer setting.
I'm hoping that Santa might bring me a new tablet with a 7" screen which might have more memory.
On a slightly different tack - eInk would seem to be a very suitable technology for android based portable internet radios.
Might try one out soon as a stand-alone inet radio.
With Internet radios is it possible to choose different quality streams for stations ?
EG quasar radio has a 64k aac or 128k MP3 stream.
http://www.quasarradio.uk/tune_in.html