Hi, welcome to this unboxing video for the Arylic S10, which will hopefully
add wireless streaming capabilities to my old fashioned Hi-Fi.
I've got a Denon amp, which only has the old optical and phono inputs.
OK, On with the unboxing, so we've got a user's manual.
A mains plug.
A UK mains plug.
A 3.5mm connected to phono sockets.
3.5mm to 3.5mm.
And a USB cable.
That is the power adapter.
And we've got a remote control.
Feels fairly light, but solid enough.
And then
the main part of the unit, which is the streamer.
It's got all the connectors on the back.
And a few lights on the.
I have now moved to my amplifier, and I've taken the 3.5mm to phono cable
and plugged the phono cables
into the CD input on my amplifier
and I plugged the 3.5mm cable.
into the AUX
out of the S10.
Then.
take the UK mains plug and plug the.
USB cable.
I then take the other end of the USB
cable and plug that into the 5volt input.
I'm going to plug this in, but I don't switch it on yet.
On your phone, install the 4stream app, which is available for Android
on the Google Play Store or for Apple iOS on the Apple App Store.
I've put a couple of AAA batteries
into the remote control.
And now I press
and hold the power button.
And switch on at the mains.
And the NET light flashes
rapidly to show that the S10 is loading.
I now go to my phone
and tap the 4stream app, which will automatically search for you
S10, which needs to be using the 2.4G WiFi, not 5G WiFi.
The app requires access to your location, so you need to allow this.
The instruction book indicates that once setup is finished,
you can disable location access for the 4stream app.
I haven't tried actually doing this yet.
The NET indicator LED is blinking
slowly, and the app found my S10,
which is called SoundSystem_670E in the app, so I hit set up.
I check that the Wi-Fi name was correct and then entered my WiFi password.
The app confirmed that the
S10 was connected to the Wi-Fi with a very good signal strength.
I was then given the opportunity to name the device using one of the many room
names available in the app or to leave it as the device name.
The app then checked that the firmware was up to date.
It wasn't so the firmware was upgraded.
I've speeded this up in the video considerably because it takes
several minutes.
Your S10 should now be ready to play some music.
Click Browse at the bottom of the screen.
The list of streaming services is extensive and at the bottom of the screen
you will also see the app's source selector switches.
Line in is the 3.5 mm socket
labeled AUX IN on the rear of the S10.
The USB DAC is the USB socket on the rear of the S10,
which allows you to plug in a USB memory stick
with up to 1024 tracks.
The remote control can also be used to switch between these different sources.
I've got a lot of music stored on my phone,
so when I scroll back to the top and select my music,
I give the app permission to access the media on my phone.
After a delay, the app detects over 3000 tracks, which are stored on my phone.
I've got a lot of music and that I got a not responding warning,
but I just waited for the app
to process all these tracks and eventually the app continued.
At this point, I should point out that my smart phone
is several years old and is a basic smart phone.
These problems could therefore be as a result of my low powered
smart phone, rather than a problem with the 4stream app.
At the bottom of the screen 4stream shows the track that is playing.
If you tap on this, you get a full screen showing the track that is playing with
the album art at the top and the track name, band name and album below.
I just leave my audio players on shuffle play.
I don't have any playlists.
I can alter the volume and jump to the next track.
However, it does take several seconds for the album art to change to the new track.
But as mentioned before, this could be a problem with my basic smart phone.
The 4stream app can access a good range of streaming services.
Let's take a quick look at TuneIn and click on music.
Let's pick Virgin, which is listed first in the most popular stations section.
You have the option to tag Virgin as a favorite.
Let's play Virgin, and you can see that it now
appears in the Play Bar at the bottom of the screen.
You can obviously switch to another station just by clicking on
the station icon.
There is also the option to play music from a DLNA media server
or a home music share to use the terminology used by the 4stream app.
I work from home and I'm
sat in front of my desktop computer for long periods,
so I would actually prefer to stream music from my PC
rather than from my mobile phone.
This would also avoid the problems which the size of my music collection
is causing for my basic smartphone.
The Arylic instruction manual recommends
the use of the Foobar2000 app on a PC.
The instruction manual and the Arylic website provides
detailed instructions on how to set up Foobar to work with the S10.
First of all, go to the website shown on the screen
and download and install the Foobar2000 app.
The download and installation process is shown speeded up considerably.
The Foobar app will require a bit of setup to get it working exactly
the way you want it to work.
However, for this video
I'm only going to show how to get it working with the Arylic S10.
So for this video installation,
I simply clicked on OK in the Quick Appearance Setup window.
You now need to
download and install an additional component for Foobar,
which allows any UPnP devices on your home network,
such as the S10, to be listed as output devices for Foobar.
Click on Download to download the component onto your computer.
To install this component open the preferences window in Foobar.
It should open the Preferences window on the Component tab,
but if it doesn't, click on Components on the left hand side of the window.
Then click on Install and select the component file you have just downloaded.
Then click on OK to close preferences.
Foobar will then warn you
that it will need to restart in order to load the new component.
Restart Foobar and open the preferences window again
to check that the UPnP component has been installed correctly.
The next stage is to select the S10 as your audio output device for Foobar.
The instructions, advise you to click on Library and then Configure.
This opens the Preferences window on the Media Library pane.
Maybe this was the correct Preferences pane in an old version,
but in the version that I downloaded, you need to expand the Playback
preferences and then expand the Output preferences
to see the UPnP media renderer output preferences.
Click on the UPnP output preferences and in the Found Devices list,
you should see the Sound System 670E, which is the app's name for the S10.
This confirms that Foobar is now seeing the S10, so all you need to do
now is to select it as the output device by clicking on Output
and then in the dropdown list of devices select Sound System 670E.
Click on Apply, then OK to close the window.
Now select any music file on your computer.
Hit the play button and Foobar should now be streaming to your S10,
which will then send the audio to your amplifier.
In other words, you should not be streaming audio to your old amplifier.
I hope this video helps anybody like me who's got an old amp
that they want to add audio streaming to from either a phone or from a computer.