Pinnacle Soundbridge Homemusic

Advantages: easy set up, a quick solution to music streaming
Disadvantages: sound quality does not match original source.

...The Pinnacle SoundBridge media hub is a smashing device considering the price of around £50.00 Its versatile and is fairly easy to set up and seamlessly connects to your wireless router in order to give you easy access to Internet radio. There are loads preset and you have the option of browsing 'regions' to identify your favourite local stations available on the web. I did find that my local station wasn't listed and although it comes with radio snooper software I've failed to get this to work properly. The device happily finds both my windows media files and itunes folder and allows you to browse and play these tunes through speakers or your hi-fi if you connect this using a spare phono socket. The sound quality is a little dissapointing as it lacks the natural volume and depth of the original source. The other problem... Read review

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Advantages: Looks good and Easy set up
Disadvantages: Limited features

...The Roku Soundbridge is a very useful piece of kit. It allows you to wirelessly stream music from your computer to anywhere in the house as long as you have a wireless network and a copy of itunes. FEATURES The Roku Soundbridge comes in three varieties. They all follow the same basic principal with a tube like design fronted by a green retro style display. The M2000 is the most expensive of the three. It features a large vacuum fluorescent display thats 17in wide and can display up to four lines of text, allowing for lyrics and lots of information on the current track. You can browse your music collection by song, artist, genre, or composer but the problem is that tracks downloaded from itunes aren't compatible. This could be a problem if your music library is filled with the stuff. The Soundbridge has a coax and optical... Read review

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Advantages: Internet radio though your hifi
Disadvantages: Would be slightly better with a higher resolution display

...to upgrade this though, since its only a basic one. There is also the option of using an optical digital cable if your amp supports it. Other than that there is just a mains cable and ethernet cable comming out from the back. The ethernet cable is of course optional. The device supports wifi and will also connect to wpa and wep security enabled networks. For me this required performing a software update on the device, but newer ones will probably already support this. However I am currently using the cable because I still can't get it to connect wirelessly to the network. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but its been a pain so far. Other reviews have said that most people have no trouble at all, so its probably just me! So my broaband connection comes into my house, into my router and then the soundbridge is connected to the router. This lets... Read review

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