a link system to send wifi or Bluetooth streaming to your old speaker systems.
It is £139.99 almost everywhere else. Argos do have some limited availability in the clearance section for £69.99.
The negatives with this is that Bose don't support apple 'airplay' anymore???? (I'm sure that will please some of you mac sceptics out there mind).
But it will still work on apple products via multiple other streaming services AND via Bluetooth.
I think this appears to be a good deal. I'm actually wanting to see what all you guys think before I buy it!!
********* price is now back to £139.99 on amazon
All comments (39)
lord_trumpington
19 Mar 17#1
Doesn't the Amozon Dot thingy do the same thing?
bsmallwo to lord_trumpington
19 Mar 17#2
I don't really know. I'd be interested to see what others say.
bsmallwo to lord_trumpington
19 Mar 17#3
Looks like the only input to your existing speakers with the amazon dot is via a 3mm audio jack. The Bose has optical and av cable options. I think it is more like the Sonos wifi link
TANDY to lord_trumpington
30 Mar 17#33
Yeah, but the audio is crap on the Dot, so you have to plug it into a speaker to make the sound bearable.
matengawhat
19 Mar 17#4
Same price at amazon
Echo dot can't connect directly to your nas drive to play music on your network, this has both wifi and bluetooth, also optical out to connect to better dac, echo dot can only connect by 3.5mm or bluetooth
bsmallwo to matengawhat
19 Mar 171#5
Interesting - it was £139.99 on amazon when I posted this this morning :smiley:
matengawhat
19 Mar 17#6
Also hopefully the dac in the bose will be better
TK42
19 Mar 17#7
Must be a fair profit margin on these, if they can afford to drop the price by this much.
bsmallwo
20 Mar 17#8
Good point.
I just hope hukd is getting these big companies to fall in line with correct/fair pricing.
I'm feeling pretty chuffed that amazon reacted so quickly.
unuspromulti
20 Mar 17#9
So is this like a Chromecast Audio with support for more streaming platforms/services?
bsmallwo
20 Mar 17#10
Sorry, I'm out of my depth here - I just know that they are similar to Sonus - you can play music streaming on wifi around the house with or without proprietary speakers. Not sure what chrome cast does. The sonus link is usually approx £350. This is just dedicated to music playing and not other internet related services (speech recognition etc).
matengawhat
20 Mar 171#11
Amazon music still doesnt work over wifi/bose app, can connect phone or echo by Bluetooth, which is pretty poor, works in usa!
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Opening post
It is £139.99 almost everywhere else. Argos do have some limited availability in the clearance section for £69.99.
The negatives with this is that Bose don't support apple 'airplay' anymore???? (I'm sure that will please some of you mac sceptics out there mind).
But it will still work on apple products via multiple other streaming services AND via Bluetooth.
I think this appears to be a good deal. I'm actually wanting to see what all you guys think before I buy it!!
********* price is now back to £139.99 on amazon
All comments (39)
Echo dot can't connect directly to your nas drive to play music on your network, this has both wifi and bluetooth, also optical out to connect to better dac, echo dot can only connect by 3.5mm or bluetooth
I just hope hukd is getting these big companies to fall in line with correct/fair pricing.
I'm feeling pretty chuffed that amazon reacted so quickly.