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I am a senior citizen and not very techy. I have an old laptop that's about to be replaced. I ripped over 500 CDs to the hardrive, in MP3 format (I know probably not the best thing, but it's already done). I also have uploaded this music to Amazon cloud (I have Prime), Google play, and Dropbox.
I would like to play this music in my family room using the wifi in my house. I do not own any stereo equipment at this time (all sold to the new owner of my old house). I have no objection to plugging 2 speakers into electric outlets, but that's it as far as wires go (except the laptop which is always plugged in, but in a different room). The wifi setup is NOT networked and nevrr will be (this okd laptop is windows vista, which sucks.)
Alternatively, I could use my android tablets for streaming the music from the cloud storage, but NO BLUETOOTH. The tablets are all androuds and wifi enabled only.
I want reasonably good quality sound, small size, reasonably attractive (or at least, not ugly) speakers, with a total price for all the equipment of $300. Might go to $400 for something truly sensational.
Ideas, suggestions, please?
PS if there's another forum that might be helpful, that's good too. But most of tte audio boards are so techy that it's over my head AND budget. I tried AVS, but they weren't interested.
If the Android tablets have a headphone output (and I'm positive they do), you can buy a device like a Jambox (look it up on Amazon) and use it as your speaker. Yes, they run Bluetooth, but they can also be plugged directly in, without running Bluetooth. Any program (Amazon Cloud Music, Pandora, Spotify, etc) that will run on your Android will work.
I use a Sonos (also on Amazon, for reference) system that has its own wireless, but the speakers are EXPENSIVE - not sure I would do that system again.
The "left over computer speakers" bit likely refers to those of us who have had computer systems for years and have spare this-n-that, like speakers, old keyboards, monitors, motherboards, etc etc etc just catching dust in the closet.
I do. I have a smartTV and it's connected to Wifi. The sound quality for music is inadequate. I also have a soundbar that is fine for TV watching, but is not full enough for music.
I think all I need are some wifi speakers that are high quality. Does such a thing exist? I do understand that Sonos would work, but agree that the cost is on the high side unless I were going to buy multiple speakers and play music is multiple rooms. Not the case here.
You can probably find one of those mini tabletop stereos for less than 100 bucks. As long as it has an audio-in jack, you can connect the headphone jack from your computer/tablet to the audio-in jack on the stereo and play the music through the stereo. This is exactly what I do. And it's probably cheaper than trying to find some other type of wireless or bluetooth speakers.
I do. I have a smartTV and it's connected to Wifi. The sound quality for music is inadequate. I also have a soundbar that is fine for TV watching, but is not full enough for music.
I think all I need are some wifi speakers that are high quality. Does such a thing exist?
Upgrade your sound bar or sound bar system to a better sounding one.
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