Streaming Linn Radio

[bushy007]

Hi guys this is more of a discovery rather than a question. I have been using a radio app on my iphone for a while now and since apple allowed the iphone to stream to an Airport Express using airplay I've been mixing up my Music in my music room between my Server and also direct from my iphone. Now the thing is this app called Tunein Radio gives me access to thousands of stations all over the world as well as searching for the url of a particular stream. So in the last week I found three feeds from Linn, including 'Linn Classical', 'Linn Jazz' and 'Linn Radio'. The feeds are 320kbps and actually sound pretty damn good.

I have been hearing complaints all over audio sites on the web about the ability to stream radio to particular devices and especially people using an airport express that they cant add stations to the itunes radio directory. Ive found that this way i can listen to awesome quality music from a source that i know has quality in the forefront of their minds.

 

Just thought i'd share this with everyone sorry if its treading old ground.

 

 

 

Btw the app was $1.19AU when i got it so pretty cheap i reckon,Hope this helps a few people to enjoy some more music...

 

Just a quick addition- i was just flicking through some settings on my receiver and while i am streaming the Linn stream my receiver is getting a 7.1 'Multichannel PCM @ 48khz' feed in the input. Now i wasn't sure if the AE can even send that signal through a Toslink cable but thats what my receiver is saying. I know its different because when i stream music from itunes through the AE the input is always displayed as 2.0 PCM @48khz. Something interesting.

 

 

 

[realhifi]

Those are good stations for sure. They are available easily if you have any internet radio streamers from Squeezebox, Rotel, Naim, etc.

 

[ziggyzack]

not to mention Linn DS players!

 

[realhifi]

Oh yeah....forgot about "them"...