Andover Audio Songbird: This budget-priced music streamer is no featherweight
Don’t let its small size and $129 price tag fool you: Andover Audio’s Songbird music streamer flies high and sings almost as sweetly as competitors that cost three or four times more. The Songbird also offers near best-in-class ease of use and connectivity.
Nurtured by Boston audio community vets, Songbird is targeted primarily to the gazillions of people who bought nice sound rigs in the pre-internet age: Built-tough, classically styled stereo gear still functioning quite well, thank you, though maybe gathering dust because the vinyl, tape, and CD content it was designed for seems like stuff from the dark ages of shopping at Tower Records and Sam Goody.
Rejoice! Songbird can get you and that rig humming again, with instant access to hundreds of thousands of fresh, free, streaming radio stations and podcasts, plus tens of millions of on-demand music selections—old and new—that can be summoned in an instant for about the cost of one album a month.
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