Stereo Receiver Apple Music

enables me to send my Apple Music from my phone to my older stereo receiver which is pre Bluetooth.

The combination of a HomePod (or a stereo pair) and an Apple Music subscription allows a music lover to experience abundance beyond the wealthiest people on the planet, living or dead. Whatever you want to hear, whenever you want, with Great Sound! Super Convenient!  I couldnt be happier.

I bought this about a month ago to replace a 34 year old (!) Sony Stereo receiver. The old one had AM-FM receiver capability. This one only has FM Receiver built-in, but it sounds a lot cleaner than the older model. This one has fewer output jacks than my older one, but is more than adequate for my setup (Sony Stereo Cassette Deck - going on 20 years now also !), and a bluetooth Audio-Technica Record Player. This model also contains the regular size headphone jack AND a standard audio output jack on the front for older style cassette players, walkman's, etc. Very unusual feature but useful for me as I still use some of that older gear from time to time. I primarily bought and use this product for its bluetooth capability which works excellently. I have my phone, and computer able to play music to it through bluetooth. I realize bluetooth specs don't carry the full frequency range for a lot of audio musical pieces (such as classical music), but for the everyday average pop music it's just fine. This is a great entry level unit for a person who is not an audio-phile. I also bought this because of Sony durability in its products. This thing is built like a brick. Good design accents, solid metal frame, heavy duty components. I will always buy Sony products - good balance between cost, design, and functionality. Couldn't be happier with this product.

The best stereo receiver I’ve ever owned! If you want the best, this is it!

This stereo receiver was one of my better online purchases!

Use as a stereo pair for Dolby Atmos music. Also used with Apple TV for movies. Unfortunately need to upgrade TV before I get an Arc for full surround sound.

I got 4 of these to replace 3 Sonos speakers and one sound bar on my TV.  (1 in the kitchen, 1 in the dining room and 2 combined as a stereo pair under the television). Comparing the sound to the Sonos play:1 speakers, they are quite a bit better.  I can hear much more bass and the sound is more omnidirectional.  The integration to my Apple ecosystem is much nicer that the Sonos app as well.  I have apple music; the combo with the homepods is just super.  I basically use Siri to play or find whatever I want to listen to.  It took me some fiddling around over a couple days to completely figure out how to use airplay to play music from each particular homepod.  Now that I learned how to do it, it works very well.  Playing the TV sound through the paired speakers works out well too.  Sometimes the AppleTV sound output changes from homepod to HDMI all on its own for some reason.  When that happens I have to switch it back manually.  Probably some fine tuning by Apple needs to be done in this area.  I will probably buy more to make stereo pairs in every room as they sound even better this way.  By the way I also replaced an Amazon Echo with these in the process.  The microphones on these pick up our voice better than the echo.

Stereo pair in living room; use is split between streaming Apple music and Line-in from my turntable. Love it for both, brings out good detail as well oomph. Great for vocals for the most part as well. The Line-in still undergoes digitization though, so might audition all analog speakers for the turntable in the future to see if one can tell the difference. The only con is I am not able to play flac 48 kHz from local library.

The best sounding stereo amplifier I’ve ever owned.I primary listen to Apple Music ALAC files and LPs. Sound is warm and distortion free at 80db.

I use it to connect my tape deck to the stereo receiver.