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1.0 out of 5 starsJust say no...
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2022
Over the past couple of years, I've bought several Audiolab6000A integrated amps and paired them with Audiolab6000CDT's in a variety of speaker arrangements. All of these Audiolab devices arrived in perfect condition and all of them have performed flawlessly.
Because I'd had such good experiences with these devices, I also bought multiple copies of the Audiolab6000N streamers, which, unfortunately, proved to be a huge and very expensive mistake. The streamers look similar, seem well constructed and sound good but the incompetently designed computer interface has rendered them so unreliable I do not even use them.
I got seriously burned by my careless assumption that the company's products would all manifest the same level of quality. Absolutely not so.
That the company has not fixed this issue by now is truly shameful. The software is beyond bad. My toaster has better software. I feel seriously cheated by my experience with these streamers. (This is with high speed fiber optic internet, brand new WiFi router, brand new Dell XPS computers, Amazon's HD streaming service and with either ethernet or wifi.)
I was a computer/telecom systems analyst before I retired. I first learned to program back in the 1970's. It's not me or my equipment that is causing these issues. It's the streamer's interface which looks like it was designed forty years ago for a cheap toy and quite simply does not work properly.
Not happy, to put it gently!
