Originally Posted by Ronnie
Try a Sonos Connect box, much better quality than routing it thru the compromised internals of an iPad.

Coax and Optical Out into your 861.

Also accesses the 320kbps Streams directly rather than the Mobile Devices which are limited to 160kbps.

A Squeezebox Touch may also be an option, but these are no longer being sold, so may be difficult to find.

Mobile Spotify apps have had direct access to 320kbit (extreme) both direct streaming and download for offline use for some time now.

The old airport express did not resample but haven't verified the new (white AppleTV look) one.

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