WiFi & Bluetooth Music Streamer Receiver | Arylic S10+ | Airplay DLNA UPnP | Multi-Room Sync | Spotify, Tidal, TuneInRadio, iHeartRadio, Deezer etc | LAN Connection | 24bit 192kHz Decoding

Something good in a small package. After having to return a TIBO unit on grounds of poor quality, I thought I’d be saving up the £500 for a Bluesound Node 2i. Until I found the Arylic S10. At half the price of the TIBO, I was slightly suspicious of the very positive reviews, but thought it worth the gamble. Thus far I am astonished by how good this little box has proved to be, at least for my needs.The Pros -The Arylic is smaller than it looks on the page and would not quite cover an adult palm, lengthways. it is light and all plastic, but seems well constructed. I’m using it primarily to stream from my NAS drive, controlled by my iPad or iPhone, into a Denon AVRX 300 and out of KEF surround sound speakers. Mostly, using the front wall mounted speakers for stereo. Setup was easy, with none of the usual jiggery-pokery. Just push a button and enter the password at the right time. So far, I’ve had it running via Ethernet, WiFi and Bluetooth. Every app on the iPad that is capable of AirPlay or a Bluetooth connection has worked flawlessly, with no real lag. Spotify, Deezer, NAS based music, TuneIn Radio, etc, etc. Only when using iPad based musical instruments could I detect any lag at all, at that was so minimal it is not an issue.Using the iPad to contact the NAS, and Bluetooth to send to the Denon seems the best option. But Ethernet is also sounding good and mostly solid. It may be imagination but the Ethernet connection sounds a little better to me than the Bluetooth. There were one or two small glitches when using WiFi, but nothing to ruin the entertainment. WifI is registering as 29%, which is odd as the Arylic is sitting right next to a Roku 2, which latches onto the same WiFi at near full strength.The remote is a dinky little device, without batteries. Also, the remote has a button labelled ‘Opt In’ which may confuse some people as the Arylic does NOT have an optical in or out port. What this button does is invoke the Ethernet connection. I am running mine into a Netgear Wi-Fi range extender, as that works much better than the Arylic’s internal WiFi. The middle button on the Arylic remote invokes its own WifI. Next to that is a button marked BT. Not a link to British Telecom, just the way to invoke Bluetooth mode. Handily, the remote also includes power on/off and mute buttons.The Cons -Other reviews stated that the Arylic came with a US style power brick. So I ordered up a USB UK plug, only to find that Arylic now include a similar plug in the box. The Arylic also comes with bog standard cables to connect to an amp, but I provided my own for better quality. 4STREAM, the free app to control the Arylic is okay, and way better than the junk that controls TIBO units, but I can find no way when using it to turn the Arylic off. For that I must resort to the remote.One point it may be worth making for those who also own a Roku device, is that the Roku remote triggers the Arylic when certain buttons are pushed. Usually just turning it on. This is an irritation, but the quick fix is to use apps to control both devices (except for switching off the Arylic).Longevity is, obviously, something I cannot yet comment on, but will amend this review if there are any problems. Otherwise assume it remains working well.Thus far, I can strongly recommend the Arylic S10 for anyone who wants to pump NAS and Internet based audio into their stereo amp or AV controller. It might not satisfy the ears of an audiophile with deep pockets, but for most people the sound will be more than good enough.

A few months back bought an Amazon Basics Bluetooth Headphone DAC to feed music from an iPad into a vintage high system - Quad66/306 amplifiers and ESL 63 loudspeakers. Was not expecting it to be great but was pleasantly surprised.Bought the Acrylic hoping that Wifi would be better than Bluetooth but found the sound quality not any better on a side by side comparison.So, yes the Acrylic unit does the job and for what it costs is very good value but cheaper solutions do exist for same sound quality. I saw no sound quality advantage for Wifi and Apple Airplay over Bluetooth from an iPad.Was easy to set up although did wonder why it needs a remote control apart from powering the box down, the power LED is quite fierce.It’s a good product but with a discerning Hifi system seems I need a much better streamer solution to get the quality I want.Don’t let this put you off buying an Acrylic, all the bits are in the box, the App is simple to use, and the set up instructions good as well. If I hadn’t bought the cheap Amazon Bluetooth DAC I’d have hung on to it while looking for a better streamer.

Very good little unit, streaming functionality and the 4Stream app both v good (this is used by a number of brands so is well supported). As a second system its set up with optical out to a Naim DAC, sound is impressive and while limited to 96KHz vs hi res @ 192KHz it's great for nearly everything, for £59 amazing value, we can hardly can tell difference to the main system streamer which was over 20 times more expensive....which is rather thought provoking!

When my Logitech Squeezebox Touch bit the dust, I thought this was the reasonably priced answer to my problems but it has been somewhat disappointing. I needed something that would stream from my music collection on a QNAP NAS to some wired speakers and the S10 looked very promising given that it claims to be able to play via Bluetooth, USB, Wifi and wired ethernet using DLNA.The sound is good and although the instructions are light and not comprehensive, I was able to set it up without too much bother. A nice touch is that if you wire up the speakers before you set it up (which it does not suggest in the manual), a voice output tells you what it is doing at each stage. There is basic Eq function to boost or attenuate bass and treble and the remote has a "d.bass" button for a bass boost which works nicely too.The 4Stream app is a little basic and although it notified me of a firmware upgrade for the S10, I found that it failed to perform this repeatedly and then I later found in the settings that the version had updated after all. I've still no idea whether it really upgraded it or not as nothing appeared to change and it actually said it had failed. The set-up options allows the unit to connect via Wifi to your router, it also seems to connect via wired LAN automatically using DHCP - there is no option to set up static IP which is annoying.I have been able to connect my phone via Bluetooth very easily and can thus play anything from there using any music app, although it does have a tendency to drop out when not actively playing and it's a bit of a pain to get it reconnected - quit player app, switch off BT, reboot S10, switch back on, reconnect to S10, restart play app. A strange point is that during the various reboots and resets, the Bluetooth name for the device has changed about 4 times which doesn't fill me with confidence. I've no idea why the device name would change like that.My main gripe is that I bought it to use a DLNA server over LAN and it will not do this, via Wifi or wired. After doing repeated factory resets and trying different modes of set up, I just once got my DLNA servers (NAS and PC) to appear briefly in the app and was able to play an album from it before they disappeared, never to return. This is a real pain because this feature enabled me to scroll through my entire DLNA collection and play anything direct from the 4Stream app without BT which is exactly what I wanted it for - I don't really want the music to be interrupted every time I get a notification on my phone. None of my other network devices (Smart TVs, etc.) have any trouble seeing the DLNA servers. Irritatingly, I can see the device registered as a DLNA client on my NAS OS but the app can't see the server so I can't choose it as a source.I contacted Arylic support and also the 4Stream app support via email and have no response from either.I haven't investigated the USB option as my NAS does not support this for file serving but the Aux In function works ok if you want to pass through from another device.To sum up, it want a DAC pre-amp for playing from your phone via BT (or maybe USB) then this is a cheap solution with a good sound but if you want DLNA, forget it.EDIT: I've found the DLNA function works just fine if you only the 4Stream app for set up and use something else for streaming, eg. BubbleUPnP (free on Google Play Store), so I've upgraded the rating from 3 to 4 stars. If Arylic had simply said use any UPnP streamer app, I would have had no problems at all and given it 5 stars. Ho hum.