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In addition to a small volume control I'd replace the single speaker with a single stereo speaker which is in effect 2 speakers in one - this will allow you separate L&R channels in both rooms.

Vortexbox - although now superseded by a paid for version Daphile

That’s called a Brennan but it’s not very flexible. There are a couple of specialist Linux distributions that will convert an old PC to do the same.

What to do on a Bank Holiday Monday when it’s cold and dreary outside? Needledrop

So has the UAC202 but the UACs don’t have phono stage

IIRC the Fluance does not include a built in phono stage so presumably you are using the Ultra phono input. What is connected downstream from the Ultra and how? Probably the cheapest sensible start point is a Behringer UFO202 which includes a phono stage. To use this with an Ultra you’d need...

Weather forecast today was poor but actually it’s a lovely warm day. So I’m in the garden having a coffee and listening to some music. Libratone Zipp operating in Airplay mode with Lyrions’s AirPlay Bridge.

Those of you who have been around a while will know that I have a liking for a little known British vocalist by the name of Jess Roden. Towards the end of his musical career he recorded this album with a couple of mates in NY. It’s more 80s contemporary jazz rock than anything he had done before...

Yes. Definitely

One of the things I really like about the DSTM/LastMix algorithm on Lyrion is that when I have been listening to a lot of random but focused 70s stuff it will occasionally throw me some Python or things like Derek & Clive out of my library. Always makes me chuckle out loud. Strange looks from...

CD has just arrived from Amazon and already ripped!

I can be all of those types - it depends on the level of incompetence I am complaining about.

There can be lots of factors involved - what's happening on the iPad at the same time, stability and bandwidth on your Internet connection, the real quality of the WiFi (signal strength is not much of a guide), interference from neighbours WiFi etc etc

True but since it is a secondhand deck I would take a careful look at the stylus not so much for wear but for damage - quite easy for small peoples' fingers to bend out of shape and big peoples' for that matter. I agree with you about trying both the inbuilt pre-amp and the Ultra's phono input...

There is a subtle but very significant difference between AirPlay and Casting and you have discovered exactly what it is. Before you throw the iPad across the room in disgust which service is it where you particularly want to use AirPlay?