B.S. Node 2i brick (yet another one)

i have had 5 nodes (3x 2i, 2x n130) in various parts of 2 homes we spend time in, since early 2020, all have performed flawlessly, no issues whatsoever

obviously these are very low cost, exceptionally popular for those getting into streaming, i would imagine thousands have been sold, there will be some failure rate, inevitably

not to be argumentative, but just add some perspective and balance to this thread, which seems to be trying to make bluesound’s node (and their other products) seem unreliable as a blanket, generalized statement

1 - details matter, specifics matter... i believe early versions of the bluesound vault (which has built in hard drive memory to store music, in addition to stream) had some issues with reliability at roll-out, mostly with the storage drive failing... not good, but this isn’t the node, which doesn't have an internal drive

2 - nodes, from the 2, 2i now n130 are the big big seller... think of it as the honda civic of streamers, for everyman, offers huge value at a very modest price point (yes i know new civics are 25-30k cars now... ugh, but you’ll get my point i hope) - so oodles of them are sold, and some small percentage, very small percentage, have problems... but you go onto honda web user sites, and they are full of complaints about honda civics because only these owners self-select and post angrily... does this mean civics are a crappy unreliable car? heck no, if 300,000 are sold new annually and 200 of them have issues, and 80 of the those customers are pissed and complain bitterly on the forums, should you buy a vw golf instead ’because civics are unreliable garbage’???

this isn’t to minimize the frustration of the few civic or node owners who have ones that go bad, this also doesn’t mean nodes won’t start failing en masse when they stay plugged in 24-7 for 6-7-8 years, doing what they do...

but we should maintain some perspective...