Running BluOS – Bluesound’s proprietary multi-room wireless streaming platform – the Node (2021) gives you easy access to local and networked libraries, streaming services and internet radio stations. Despite the recycled name, the Canadian brand has given its streamer a thorough refresh, bringing it right to date as far as feature-set and value are concerned, bagging a 2021 What Hi-Fi? Award in the process. All the music streamers on this list are five-star products and many are What Hi-Fi? Award-winners, some with more than one to their names.īluesound has opted to return to its original ‘Node’ moniker for this, its third-generation music streamer (not to be confused with its second-gen model below - the ‘ Node 2i’ ). This being the 21st century, internet radio comes as standard – as do smartphone and/or tablet control apps. Some also boast AirPlay, Bluetooth, Spotify Connect, UPnP compatibility and USB connections. Most of the selection below support the vast majority of hi-res music formats. Whether you get your tunes from Spotify or Tidal, or have them stored on a hard drive, we've found the best music streamers to take the hassle out of the hunt. Whether you're looking to play locally stored lossless files or access CD-quality tracks from top-tier music subscription services, choosing one of the best music streamers is the best way to do them justice. To sure that your music sounds the best it can, a dedicated streamer is a must-have for your digital hi-fi needs. For example, do you have a NAS? Or, do you just prefer the H360 to stream your music files from the Mac?Īlso, if you can avoid connecting the H360 to your network via the Mac, you certainly don't have to (and it would make it far less complicated not to).It's undeniable that even for those more inclined towards physical music formats, streaming now dominates a large part of our daily listening habits. For example, would you like to do this on the Mac itself, or would you prefer to do this on a handheld network device, eg iPad, smartphone, tablet, etc?Īnother thing to consider, especially if you'd prefer not to use the Mac as the go between, do you intend to use the H360 for playing your own music files, so not just for Tidal streaming? If so, you'll need to consider what network device to keep those music files on for the H360 to be able to access them from. It all depends on how you want to control the selection of your music from Tidal and its playback. So you have several options to network stream music from the Tidal online streaming service.
The Hegel H360 integrated stereo amplifier has an built-in UPnP/DLNA network music file streamer (aka UPnP renderer) as well as AirPlay network streaming support.
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