Need to Update hi-fi sound system

onesixfive

Love our background music and we had been using an ipod loaded with our favourites in an old Bose sound Dock in the lounge.....however the ipod has finally died a death.

Not total technophobes we occasionally use Bose Dock with a Bluetooth link to spotify etc via samsung phone.

We have an amazon echo ball. Tend to use that elsewhere in house for radio.
We've got rid of our LP  & CD collections. But would prefer something better/nicer for our main music source.

We'd like to update our sound system. But It's no longer so simple as going to buy a new record deck or cd player.

What do we buy that isn't going to be out of date in a couple of years?

Is everything reliant on monthly subscription to Spotify or similar since we no longer have cd's or LPs

Advice or ideas please?

Hoenir

Nothing can beat the warmth and depth of vinyl. No regrets in turning the clock back. 

Vitor

>We have an amazon echo ball<

Try an Echo Studio with Prime Music subscription.

RumRat

If you are used to Alexa stuff and Spotify I would recommend one of these... C5A Multi-room Speaker with Amazon Alexa - WiFi & Bluetooth (audiopro.com)
The sound is excellent and room filling and you can connect virtually anything to it. I have a record deck connected to play the vinyl collection. Most of the time I use Spotify wirelessly though, all CD's were consigned to the attic years ago and the vinyl collection
is more vintage stuff than newer sounds.
Also the added advantage of it being Alexa enabled to use for all the home stuff. You can also use it multi-room connected to others.
You should be future proofed for a good while as an added bonus.

GDB2222

Do you get a full version of Alexa with that, @RumRat

EssexExile

I used to be a hi-fi snob. I still use my very expensive Quad system playing through various Castle and Mission speakers wired around the house, but the source now is always my phone! All my music, vinyl, cd & cassette, has been downloaded to the phone.

oldernonethewiser

Have you managed to recover the music from the iPod?

I stream radio from around the world using TuneIn app when in the car and my Internet radio at home allows me to get stations from most places.   I don't pay any subscription.

RumRat

GDB2222 said:

Do you get a full version of Alexa with that, @RumRat

Well it does everything I ask of it....Music, Radio, lights, plugs, Thermostat etc etc. I also have Google Home and use them both equally and not found it to be wanting.

onesixfive

oldernonethewiser said:

Have you managed to recover the music from the iPod?

No - The pod has "died". I have an old laptop I am going to have a go plugging it into that next week, but I don't hold out much hope.

onesixfive

EssexExile said:

I used to be a hi-fi snob. I still use my very expensive Quad system playing through various Castle and Mission speakers wired around the house, but the source now is always my phone! All my music, vinyl, cd & cassette, has been downloaded to the phone.

..and do you simply bluetooth it via your speakers?
Is that not inconvenient? I use my phone on/off most of the day for texting, appointments, shopping, banking....
Forgive my ignorance - What if you get a call when the music is playing?

Emmia

onesixfive said:

EssexExile said:

I used to be a hi-fi snob. I still use my very expensive Quad system playing through various Castle and Mission speakers wired around the house, but the source now is always my phone! All my music, vinyl, cd & cassette, has been downloaded to the phone.

..and do you simply bluetooth it via your speakers?
Is that not inconvenient? I use my phone on/off most of the day for texting, appointments, shopping, banking....
Forgive my ignorance - What if you get a call when the music is playing?

Music tends to cut out when a call comes through if you stream from a phone.