Yamaha’s MusicCAST2 Wireless Audio Streamer, For Those Who Missed MusicCAST1
Yamaha’s MusicCAST2 Network Music System is a Wi-Fi-based tunes centre that allows you to wirelessly transmit and listen to music in up to 32 rooms throughout your home. Do you even have 32 rooms in your home?
Touted as the ultimate multiroom wireless system for music lover’s, the MusicCAST2 supports iTunes AAC files as well as MP3s, WMA, FLAC, and WAV, and can playback music from iPods, Bluetooth devices and other Yamaha accessories—via a built-in dock port—and USB thumb drives. It can also pull audio from a variety of sources, including Rhapsody, Internet radio, both PC and Macs, and NAS devices.
First introduced to the market six or seven years ago when the release of a wireless music platform was highly anticipated, the original MusicCAST was a server and satellite system that promised an awful lot at a time when networking technology wasn’t very good, so the release of a successor—the MusicCAST2—comes as a surprise to us.
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A bit disappointed in Yamaha’s offering here. They had things right on the money with the cutting edge launch of MusicCast 4 years ago but this offering was a total waste of good R&D dollars.
When you have products like Sonos around surely the likes of Yamaha would have taken notice and tried to better it, with this new version of the MusicCast they seem to have taken us back a few years, I mean in the days of touch screens everywhere why would you even consider putting a mouse pad on the controller???!!!!
No current access to online services either, apparently this is a wait and see feature. Not to mention the drawn out operation and setup process, you kind of have to wonder what on earth has Yamaha become when they let this sort of boat anchor out of the bag.