Educate me - wireless speakers

PaulStat

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Soo I'm in the market for a wireless speaker that I can control via an Android device (asking too much?)

At lunch time I went over to Audio T to see the Audio Pro allroom air one which when played via the Apple app using airplay was pretty damn good as it used lossless audio files.

From what I understand however the speaker connects to android devices using DLNA? So only MP3's can be played?

I've had a look at Android apps that can connect to AirPlay devices (such as iMedia share) but I'm guessing then you wouldn't be able control the speaker volume for example via the app?

Also does airplay only support ALAC and not FLAC?

He did show me a Sonos speaker which was quite good, but not as good as the audio pro, plus that did have an Android app which could control the speaker and stream lossless music.
 
Sonos, Sonos, Sonos

I have one in each room of the house. Apart from our walk in wardrobe.

Sonos uses its own "wifi mesh" which you can also jump onto if you have poor wifi
 
PaulStat said:
Soo I'm in the market for a wireless speaker that I can control via an Android device (asking too much?)

At lunch time I went over to Audio T to see the Audio Pro allroom air one which when played via the Apple app using airplay was pretty damn good as it used lossless audio files.

From what I understand however the speaker connects to android devices using DLNA? So only MP3's can be played?

I've had a look at Android apps that can connect to AirPlay devices (such as iMedia share) but I'm guessing then you wouldn't be able control the speaker volume for example via the app?

Also does airplay only support ALAC and not FLAC?

He did show me a Sonos speaker which was quite good, but not as good as the audio pro, plus that did have an Android app which could control the speaker and stream lossless music.
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Blimey, what a confusing mish-mash.

You might want to go back to Audio T and just recheck with them what exactly they're doing with the their demos and what you are being told. It's easy to get confused when you're dealing new bits of gear as well as new concepts.

As far as file formats and DLNA/UPnP, AFAIK the only limits to to file type are what the renderer supports. In your case the renderer is the speaker. So if the wireless speaker doesn't support FLAC because it can't decode and play it then that's the only limitation. Have a look at the file list supported by the Synology NAS (a source device). There's more file formats than you can shake a stick at http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/List_of_supported_multimedia_files So as far as what you can send over a DLNA link, you can see that the file type itself isn't really the limit.
 
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