The SOtM sMS 200 streamer is an unassuming little unit costing $450 plus taxes. John Scott puts it to the test.
“The sMS200 comes in a neat, stylish SOtM-branded black box with the streamer itself snugly swaddled in matching black foam protection and accompanied by its wall-wart power supply. It was hard to tell from photos of the sMS 200 what its build quality was going to be like and to be honest, I didn’t have high hopes. It would be an understatement then to say that I was pleasantly surprised. The streamer is solidly constructed from black aluminium with a brushed silver aluminium front plate…”
The Etalon strEamer is a mini server made in Hungary and costing €550. John Scott wires it into his system for Hifi Pig. " I said at the beginning of this review that the Squeezebox was my benchmark of minimum quality. Initially, comparisons were favourable; the strEamer sounded as good as the Touch. Over time, I felt that the strEamer began…
SOtM are releasing the sMS-200 Neo and sMS-200ultra Neo network players. They are newer versions of the original sMS-200 (which we reviewed here) and sMS-200ultra, and SOtM say the sound is very different from the original version. The original players will be discontinued and replaced by the Neo versions from the start of August but pricing will remain the same.…
sMS-200 is a new generation of mini network player with built in ‘Media Player Board’ developed by SOtM that will cost $450. sMS-200 has a dedicated ARM processor board that has been developed for only audio. SOtM developed the product just for audio sound performance, getting rid of all unnecessary features concentrating on the high quality sound at a reasonable…
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