Article: The exaSound PlayPoint Stereo/Multichannel Streamer Review

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I can't believe anyone would want to pay $2K for a box to stream Pandora or Spotify or any other lossy service. Most people who will pay for this and the $10K of additional equipment to make a really solid two channel system care deeply about sound quality. The real market for a box like this is the locally stored library and lossless streaming services. As has been noted above, the locally stored library is going to become a much smaller segment and streaming will ascend. Right now the lossless streaming business is a mess but it won't stay that way for long. The manufacturers of these types of equipment ignore this at great peril. It is readily apparent that most don't have a clue or a plan for how to integrate lossless streaming into their products in a way that is easier for the user and better sounding than what can be done with a computer of any kind.