Bluesound Vault 2i - Hi-Res Streamer, Ripper, 2TB NAS Drive - Black

It's fantastic . Once set up just put your cd in and away you go! Phone app is easy to use too.

The interface is not user unfriendly- it’s user hostile. The help desk makes a Trappist monk look chatty. The ‘this is an audiophile product’ argument is laughable. The 15 minutes it typically took to burn a disc produced no different result from a computer rip. Trust me, I blind tested this, which is more than a typical audiophile does. I’m sure that if you use lab tests, there are different measurements. You can’t hear them, though. The disc burner was fussy beyond belief, and refused to copy roughly 1/7 of my discs. These ‘faulty’ discs copied fine on my ancient computer and even older external player. The Brennan B2 is half the price and, although it has its faults, has an output just as good as the Vault’s. Using its digital output to an external DAC and its better. Alternatively, if you have a relatively modest collection, burn it to a digital player from Fiio or similar and use the digital output option on that. Both are FAR cheaper than the Vault, but give a far better experience.

The Vault works very well and is a good value. It would be nice if it had a SSD. I'm using an optical link into a PS Audio Stellar DAC and the sound is great. Finding Internet radio stations works well too. Initially I liked the product and it performed as advertised. I copied my FLAC cd library to it and set up a couple of internet stations I like and all was well. Over a few months it began to drop the stream. I would have to restart it and this happened 2 to 3 times a day and then it would be fine for several days and then it happen again. After about a year this behavior got worse. after I had it for about 15 months it became very difficult to restart the stream. I could stream the same station on my phone over WiFi but the Vault would not connect. About this time it also would no longer connect to the BlueSound site to perform updates. Then it failed to rip CDs. I looked online and followed all the directions I could find but nothing helped. I contacted BuleSound's support via email and I discovered a new level poor customer service. Absolutely the WORST ever. They will recommend a solution and close the ticket before you can even try it. They kept asking me to re-configure my home WiFi. The Vault does not use WiFi. I finally gave up. I recently contacted BuleSound directly and I'm waiting to find out how much it will cost to return it for a refurb unit. If it's cheap I'll send it in and then sell the exchange unit on Craig's List. In the meantime I bought a Marantz NA6006. It doesn't store music but it has a better interface and sounds great. I will never buy another BlueSound product. A companies product is no better than their customer service and their on-line support set a new low for me.

Malheureusement mon appareil s’eteind tout seul apre 30 minutes e ne fonctionne pad comme prevu J’ai mis beaucoup d’argent et je suis déçu

Genau das, was ich gesucht habe! Endlich konnte ich meine CD Sammlung in einer 1A Qualität archivieren. Das Zusammenspiel mit der Roon Software funktioniert perfekt. Dahinter habe ich ein Yamaha A-S2100 mit B&W Lautsprecher geschaltet, welches ein super Hörerlebnis garantiert.

Rapport qualité/prix imbattable!

I put this device in to replace two Sony CD carousels that had 500 CDs total. Because I had already invested time in ripping my CDs to FLAC format for backup, I was very pleased to find that I could copy all the files from my backup straight to the Vault 2i. And that takes less than 10% of the storage capacity! I have it plugged into my existing stereo system for now, so no fancy wireless multi-room speakers yet. The app works well on our Android phones and Windows PCs. It would be nice if there were a Linux app. I'm not thrilled with the miserable playlist management, but otherwise the app is fine. I have found that the internal CD isn't as resilient when ripping old scratchy disks, but I can rip them on my PC and transfer them over with no problem. I'm very pleased overall with this device.