I have a set of Sonos Play speakers in my office which get 6 - 8 hours a day of usage while I’m working. I’ve enjoyed their sound for a few years, but the software has continued to get worse and worse.
Lately they’ll play music, but only some album I played a few weeks ago despite trying to use AirPlay from my iPhone/iPad or the Sonos Web App. Still get the same album I don’t really want to be listening to right now.
After a few weeks of this I finally unplugged them and let them reset which fixed the issue, but I just want to listen to music not fuck around with speakers.
So I visited the vintage stereo guy locally and started looking at getting a set of speakers and an AMP into which I’d plug in a digital audio player like this. Unfortunately he knows vintage stuff but not modern lossless audio and was unsure whether converting the balanced 4.4mm connection into an RCA would work well, or at all.
I think it will if I get the right cable but I’m not really sure either. If you’ve got more information I should be looking at as I think about moving to less streaming and less fucking around with wireless crap I’d love to hear about it.