HiFi Rose RS201E

Connect your favorite speakers and feel your way around the full color 8.8-inch touchscreen display. After a few minutes experimenting with HiFi Rose's RS201E, you may wonder why more streaming components don't have touchscreens. It has easy app control, but all you need to get started is this unit and your favorite set of speakers. This versatile component is an integrated amp, streamer, DAC, and preamp, all rolled into one. And HiFi Rose's onboard customized Android™ OS gives it a user-friendliness that will feel familiar to mobile users in general. Audiophiles will appreciate its authoritative but smooth sound. I also love the cool touchscreen features, like the functional virtual back panel for switching inputs and outputs and the virtual VU meters. I grew up playing vinyl, and then CDs. Streaming was a hard sell, but at this point I see it as an amazing — sometimes overwhelming — and necessary asset. App control across the different platforms isn't always intuitive — it's still the main reason my wife...