I had bought one at the time this thread was created and put in in a downstairs system. I listen to Classical Music but use the AE primarily for pop. When my wife and I are in the mood for some classic rock it was just so easy to pull out the phone, hit Spotify and play whatever tunes we wanted. When my adult children came over, or house sat for us, they could also stream from there phones. I was surprised at how good it sounded.
A year later I had to have emergency heart surgery. For a week after I was discharged I had to sleep on the sleeper sofa in the living room. I couldn’t access my big rig and CD collection upstairs but I had a collection of mp3 albums from Amazon, when they give you the free download if you buy a CD. That was the bulk of my listening, streamed from my phone to the AE. I was surprised how decent my Classical albums sound as mp3 streamed through BT.
Since then I added Bluesound Node2 to the living room system and have burned about a thousand CDs so the AE main use has reverted back to stream some pop songs. The Node2 also has Bluetooth but it sucks compared to the AE. It is also a pain to disconnect because you have to go into the settings menu and make several changes.
A year later I had to have emergency heart surgery. For a week after I was discharged I had to sleep on the sleeper sofa in the living room. I couldn’t access my big rig and CD collection upstairs but I had a collection of mp3 albums from Amazon, when they give you the free download if you buy a CD. That was the bulk of my listening, streamed from my phone to the AE. I was surprised how decent my Classical albums sound as mp3 streamed through BT.
Since then I added Bluesound Node2 to the living room system and have burned about a thousand CDs so the AE main use has reverted back to stream some pop songs. The Node2 also has Bluetooth but it sucks compared to the AE. It is also a pain to disconnect because you have to go into the settings menu and make several changes.