Why on earth would you buy a dedicated music streaming box instead of using the phone you already have?
3 Reasons to Buy a Music Streamer | Moon Audio
NAD’s new $350 CS1 can stream audio over your network, from Spotify Connect, Tidal Connect or your Roon server, to your nice hi-fi amplifier and speakers. That’s cool, but some hi-fi amplifiers already have Bluetooth for streaming from your phone, so why not just do that? The answer is: it depends on how picky you are.
“Streaming has fundamentally changed the way people discover and experience music,” said Cas Oostvogel, product manager for NAD Electronics, in a statement provided to Lifewire via email. “Streaming doesn’t get any easier than this.”
The easiest way to get great streaming music at home is to opt for something like a Sonos system, which is built for multi-room streaming of digital audio and has an easy, intuitive interface for doing so. In some ways it’s the modern equivalent of browsing through shelves of records, and it’s about as convenient as you can get
