Denon DNP-720AE Network Audio Player only £199.95 instore and online now @ RicherSounds
A deal...a deal at Richer Sounds, and it actually is in stock online.
£189.95 if you sign up to the VIP club and use your £10 voucher off a £100 spend.
Replace the inconvenience of your CD Player.
Cheapest price in the UK for this, was launched at £430 and has recently taken a substantial price drop (to £229) and now even further the lowest Hi-Fi separates Network Streamer available.
Does not have all the features of its sister Network Streamer the Marantz NA7004 (no DAB, no headphone socket, no DAC input, no 24/192khz FLAC support.....24/96khz FLAC ) but has more than sufficient features for most, and most can live without those features for £230 less! (especially seeing you can play Internet Radio...no real need for DAB, and a headphone socket...use your amps headphone socket!) + wi-fi built in as standard (have to pay extra with the Marantz)
DNP-720 Airplay Audio Streamer
Wi-Fi & Ethernet port for streaming audio across your home network and internet radio functionality with Last.fm and Napster support
Apple Airplay certified
More Info...
DLNA 1.5 certified and compatible with Windows 7
USB input with iPod Digital
24-bit, 192kHz DAC
Compatible with the Denon Remote App, allowing basic control from your iOS device + Android app available (also compatible with Blackberry Playbook)
Compatible with NAS drives
Denon Party Mode Plus
Remote control
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Jump to unread Post a CommentEdited By: cicobuff on Jul 23, 2012 21:56: rear image!
Edited By: cicobuff on Jul 23, 2012 20:45
It sure is, I bought mine second hand from Ebay last month for £185 delivered (still has 20 months warranty) and thought that was a great deal until this price drop.
For £189.95 by using the VIP voucher its an absolute steal.
I'm renovating a house and first looked at this, but the apple tv setup offers audio and visual and is cheaper, it's all new to me so I'm still learning
I'm renovating a house and first looked at this, but the apple tv setup offers audio and visual and is cheaper, it's all new to me so I'm still learning
To start with, this device is not designed to play through your tv, it is designed as a Hi-Fi separate and as a replacement or addition to a CD Player and also a separate tuner connected to either a stereo amplifier or home cinema receiver amplifier.
Apart from existing mechanical reasonings with CD Players, components and power supplies used, the main aspect of why devices sound (and cost) differently is down to the quality of the conversion from the bits and bytes in digital music and its translation to analogue which we hear through our speakers..this is all down to Digital Analogue Converters.
Digital Analogue Converters (DAC) are not as advanced in generic audio and visual streamers, or for that matter in the Logitech Squeezebox...this means if you are into high fidelity sound and want to stream FLAC files (compressed but maintain the original information of the CD) you are at a disadvantage unless you buy and utilise an external DAC to do the process for you.
You can however bitstream (feed the audio digitally via either optical or Coaxial Digital) audio to certain amplifiers and receivers and let them do the decoding (in other words your amplifier may have an internal DAC, and all surround receivers most certainly do), but generally even with mid range equipment (such as my Marantz Receiver) you find internal DACs of decent CD Players or Network Streamers etc still offer better sound quality.
If you only want to stream MP3s etc, then really none of this will matter, and a unit like this other than for the convenience of having internet radio onboard could be a waste of money.
I bought one to replace the majority of my CDs to the convenience of audio streaming, I need a near like for like process. Whilst the Denon does not quite match the sound of my existing NAD CD Player, its close enough for me compromise, however I would never consider streaming MP3s through Hi Fi separates you really do notice the difference with compressed audio. I save those for my MP3 Player and the car.
Edited By: cicobuff on Jul 23, 2012 21:52: further technical jargon open to scrutiny by any geeks ready to question.