Cheap temporary streamer

[bobertk]

Hi
After owning my 200 for less than 3 weeks I am now in need of a cheap Streamer solution, due to the problems with AIR making it increasingly difficult to enjoy my new purchase.

I was initially hoping to use AIR so got rid of my network player, and I am now using a CD Transport. Unfortunately I had no idea how much i would miss having my whole collection at my fingertips, so I think I am going to have to buy a cheap streamer as a temporary measure.
I am considering something like the Aurender N100 as a future purchase but as I have just overstretched my budget to get the 200, this will have to wait a while.

All of my music is on my QNAP NAS drive and just looking for ideas on a possible solution.

I have complained to Devaliet about this but I do not want to go into the details of the complaint, but I feel as if they are not taking my complaint seriously at all.

It is a real shame as I love the sound of the 200, but today I even considered asking for a refund and starting again with a different product. This is not really what I want to do though as the sound from my 200 is simply the best i have ever heard in my set up.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Cheap streamer, nothing beats Sonos Connect. Plenty of cloud music services, works with QNAP, fast indexing, coax or optical out or RCA out to D200, app on smartphones or pad works flawlessly.

Only cons: no support above 16/44.1 bitrate.

One more option:  Bluesound Vault.  Replaces streamer, NAS and Transport.

But you've got all that gear.  The Absolute Sound lists some dirt cheap USB cable as killer.  Like $15 US.  Stream from what you've got and work on the AIR on the side.

my 2 cents, er pence