![]() *The driver for this product can be purchased from Extra Vegetables. If enjoying Internet radio or your personal digital music collection on your home stereo is your pleasure, the Grace Tuner is for you. The Grace Wi-Fi Tuner provides digital audio direct from the Internet to your home stereo. Plays over 35,000 podcast and On-Demand streams or your personal Pandora radio stations all on the Grace Digital Tuner Pro with Control4® Plug it in, turn it on and enjoy a world of music. Listen to thousands of free radio stations from NPR, FOX News, CNN, BBC, CBS to KROQ. I've never been so happy to be obsoleted. I got the 35% discount, I was also able to repurpose the standalone Bluetooth receiver and standalone Chromecast Audio I had connected to that system (also freed up a DAC input). If you liked the old tuner, it's hard to imagine not liking the Link a lot more. Like the old one, the Apps are limited (it does Pandora, TuneIn, Iheart, Amazon Music (but NOT Amazon HD)) - its excellent casting though is useful for playing other apps it doesn't support. For the system I use it on, the Link form factor is far, far better, though if this was my A/V system that uses a rack, I'd prefer the older form factor. The form factor is obviously totally different - whether that's better or worse will depend on your environment. The Link loses some functionality - the FM tuner and USB interface that was built into the old one are not on the Link (not an issue for me, but could be for others). The app to control the Link is also much better and faster than the old one. I didn't try Spotify with Bluetooth to see it if also shows track info. That said, when you cast Spotify from your phone to the Grace Link, it shows all the artist/track information on the screen and you can hit the next track buttons to skip a track - so it still seems pretty integrated even though Spotify is initiated from the phone. Like the old tuner, Grace still doesn't support Spotify (sounds like they never will because Grace told me Spotify won't work with them). The other great thing is that the Link has Chromecast Audio and Bluetooth built in, and both sound excellent. The display is much nicer and much more informative, though I wish it were a bit larger or at least used a larger font for some things (like when you click on a station and it shows you the data rate - super helpful, but pretty hard to read for me since I need reading glasses to read anything tiny). It's just so much faster than the old Grace Digital tuner that I couldn't go back. The Link's station tuning is way faster - I can store one streamed radio station on one preset, and Pandora Willie Nelson channel on another preset, and then bounce back and forth between them by hitting presets almost instantly - never seen anything where you didn't have to wait for Pandora to start up, then look at the channels menu, then pick the Pandora station. They were very backlogged on orders before (which is why they look liked they were discontinued). The Link does have an RCA jack digital out (no optical) and units are now available. Click to expand.I replaced my obsoleted GDI-IRDT200 tuner with a new Grace Link and I have to say I'm pretty thrilled with the Link and pretty happy the old tuner is gone.
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