Navidrome review: stream your own music at home
Navidrome is a free open-source music server for your own collection. See what stays on your machine, what it can send out, and how to start.
Navidrome is a free open-source music server for your own collection. See what stays on your machine, what it can send out, and how to start.
Bluesound comes from the NAD/PSB hi-fi family and treats high-resolution audio as the default: proper DACs, serious amplification and a multi-room ecosystem aimed at listeners rather than advertisers. It is priced like audiophile gear because it is audiophile gear, and its ecosystem is smaller than the mass-market platforms. For quality-first streaming, it delivers.
Sonos built the best multi-room experience in the business, and the speakers sound excellent for their size. The reason for the rating is history: the company’s 2020 privacy-policy change drew widespread subscriber backlash, according to coverage at the time, and its cloud dependence has caused outages that bricked functionality users had paid for. If you […]
WiiM’s streamers and amplifiers punch far above their price: gapless playback, every relevant codec and service, and integration with your own library through DLNA and local files. The company ships firmware updates at a pace the old audio brands cannot match. The app is good rather than great, and multi-room is younger than Sonos’ mature […]
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