I bought this Sony to store all my music , selling or giving most of my CDs. Sound quality is great paired with a pair of Boston a26 speakers. The down side There are not many hi-def down loads avalible in the UK Both the control app (android) and the transfer software (windows) need a lot of work on them. The transfer software fails to update automatically and I have start the transfer in the manual mode and control app often fails to find the Hap-s1 Get the software sorted and you would have a top class product

I got this system as a replacement for my Hi-End hybrid tube amplifier, cd player and record player as I wanted something compact and easy to transport if I decided to move in the future ... I basically wanted to rip all my CD's and free space at home too.. To be honest I wasn't expecting much, but I was positively surprised! The system takes a while to break in - it sounds terrible out of the box so give it some time - I left it for a couple of days playing heavy sounding music, and it sounds great now. Sound is on the cold side as you would expect from Japanese audio brand but it is clinically precise - so acoustic, jazz and orchestral music sounds divine on it. Bit worse with busy pop and rock - I guess you can compensate this by choosing right speaker cables and speakers itself. I use KEF Q1's and XLO cables which are all known for cold sound.. Connections let you expand and send the Hi-Res audio to another amplifier if you choose so. There is few inputs so you can connect the TV, CD player or whatever you want. Shame about lack of Spotify Connect or Bluetooth, but I resolved it with additional PURE Jongo adapter. The only and major drawback is the control app which just doesn't seem to work on Apple devices. I am lucky to have a spare Sony Xperia phone which acts as a remote otherwise I would be stuck with constantly freezing app. So Sony engineers, PLEASE! fix the apple issue, otherwise it would be an excellent product ! J

Finally there is hope for those of us who still care about listening to high quality music