Streaming recommendations

@jcipale  - 

Based on what info you mentioned and what equipment you have in your profile, I would recommend one of these three families of streamers:

• WiiM Mini/Pro/ProPlus,
• Bluesound Node (2021) and Nano, and the
• Cambridge AXN-10 or MXN-10. 

All are less than $500, are solid units with both TOSlink and Coax outputs, and can be controlled by either an Andriod tablet or phone, iPad, or iPhone, using their respective software.  

The only thing you might run into is compatibility with such an old iPad version.  It might not be able to run the minimal required version of the control software.  As for the Fire tablet, depending on the version and OS running, you may have the same problem.

- Jeff

@jeffbij

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Hey, fellow Vancouverian.

All good choices for your system.

For a budget streamer, the WIIM Mini is an easy choice. It is currently $89 usd on Amazon and sometimes goes on sale for even less. Works great and sounds good when using toslink out to a decent DAC. I've used one since they were first introduced a few years ago. Just recently replaced it with a WIIM Ultra.