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Are some streaming players more reliable than others?

I love streaming music and listen to my CD player and TT less and less these days.  It's almost like having the world's music library at your feet, al for $149 /year (Qobuz). That said, I'm pulling my hair out between drop-outs, freezes, devices not being recognized, etc.  It' s always something.  My personal opinion:  It seems to me that this is a wonderful idea that was foistered on us before the bugs were worked out of the technology.  Now that I have vented, can someone tell me if some streamers are less problematic than others?  My present set-up:

MBL CD 31 CD player / DAC

Sonore Ultra-rendu

EtherNet Regen

Using MConnect for the connecting software.  

thanks.

 

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ghdprentice
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I haven’t had a drop out, freeze or any glitch of any kind for at a year. A high quality streamer should shield you from that. Both of my Aurender streamers have some file space on them… I copied a bunch of my albums (2,000) onto it, in case of an internet outage. But haven’t used it in a year.

My iPad will not load sometimes because the internet is slow, but my streamer continues without any hesitation.

 

I’m just guessing you need a better streamer. Mine works from a wall wart wiFi extender and gives me reliable sound quality equivalent to my really good vinyl analog side without a glitch… ever.

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