The Magnum Dynalab MD-809t is in production and its delivery status has not been published (I have one on order, see below).
My 807t Internet tuner is connected to my Luxman L-590-Ax integrated amplifier driving my Sonus Faber Auditor M Speakers in my living room. The music source is the Ayre CX-7eMP CD Player using Harmonic Technology Magic Link Two balanced cables (XLR). The 807t is connected to the Luxman Class A integrated using Harmonic Technology Magic Link Two cables (XLR).
I like my Magnum Dynalab MD807t Internet Radio tuner very much and highly recommend it. The setup is easy, the Internet station selection process is easy to use either on the tuner or via the radio portal. I am very pleased with the sound quality. The MD807t is highly recommended. Based on the specs, the 809t is even better sounding than the 807t.
I had several friends over and we switched back and forth between CD's and the tuner. Everyone felt the tuner sounded very good. However, when I heard the 809t has two power supplies, a newly designed audio stage with 4 6922 vacuum tubes, a 5.7 color touch screen, 3.5 touch screen remote and no capacitors after the gain stage of the tubes, I decided to upgrade. Magnum Dynalab also improved the DAC so that it boasts all incoming signals to 24-bit/192kHz.
These Internet tuners allow you to create and organize your favorite list of stations via an Internet Radio Portal website. This feature allows you to have a full list of the stations you listen to regularly on one page instead of having to search each time. Some stations come in sounding better than other stations. I try to select Internet stations that are using 192k or higher. Stations using lower numbers (such as 48k, 64k, etc) do not sound as good. The portal allows you to select music type (classical, jazz, etc) by speed.
As per Magnum Dynalab instructions, I setup the Frontier Silicon radio portal for this capability. It is free and very easy to use. The portal provides an excellent search capability to help you identify the Internet stations you want to listen to. You build your list on the computer and select the stations you want to listen to on the Internet tuner. This is an excellent feature and makes the Internet radio selection process much easier. New stations can be easily added or deleted using the Frontier Silicon radio portal. See
http://www.wifiradio-frontier.com/setupapp/fs/asp/AuthLogin/SignIn.asp?sLogoutType=OUTCOMPLETE&lngy=&sAuthErr=sp1&sAuth=
Frontier Silicon is an internet network provider that supplies over 15,000 stations (and growing) from all over the world. Users are able to "browse" stations by genre, station, and country.
Some stations for you to listen to are:
Radio Swiss Jazz (great jazz)
http://www.radioswissjazz.ch/en
Linn Classical (great classical)
http://tunein.com/radio/Linn-Classical-s122116/
Calm Radio (90 channels of jazz, classical, folk, blues, etc)
https://calmradio.com/channels.html
Calm Radio offers 90 channels of free music with commercials at a speed of 64k. I listened to the free stations for several months and upgraded this week to a Calm Radio one year $60 subscription for the 90 channels with no commercials and a speed of 192k. They offer many different type of music so you should give a listen.
