Atonemo’s Streamplayer Will Turn Older Audio Systems Into AirPlay Or Google Cast Speakers

Back in March of this year, I wrote about Atonemo, a Swedish company that announced the launch of Streamplayer, a small device that’s able to breathe new life into older speakers and audio products that lack streaming capabilities. Streamplayer also helps music lovers to be a little more sustainable by using older audio equipment for longer in the age of music streaming.

In days gone by, listening to music was easy; you just put a vinyl record on the turntable or a cassette in the tape deck and pressed a button. Sound came out of a pair of speakers and that was all there was to it. The technology was simple and had been around for years. It just worked.

Today, the way we play music has altered dramatically. Now many of us use multiple apps and streaming services, often with different technologies that are sometimes incompatible with each other. If only there was an easy and affordable way to simplify the whole process and add streaming to older speakers and hi-fi systems.

The people at Atonemo realised how frustrating it can be to see a beautiful and beloved old pair of speakers or an older audio system just sitting there unused and gathering dust, even though there’s nothing wrong with it other than it can’t stream music. Atonemo has a way to revive all those old speakers and hi-fi systems using modern technology.

The Stockholm-based business was founded three years ago by two childhood friends: Leo Ballesteros Garriga and Noah Constantinou. Ballesteros is a mathematician and Constantinou is a designer. Both share a love of music and the overly complicated streaming solutions inspired them to find a better way to play music with older audio devices and Streamplayer was born. It’s a wireless audio receiver that works with Apple AirPlay or Google Cast and can turn hi-res music files up to 24-bit/192kHz into analog sound that old active speakers and hi-fi systems can handle.

This pocket-sized device can connect to any active speaker or amplifier that has an aux-in or line-in input. With a Streamplayer connected to home’s wireless network, this little box can stream music seamlessly using AirPlay 2, Google Cast, Spotify Connect or TIDAL Connect. All it needs is an amplifier or an active speaker system.

Streamplayer requires a regular USB-C power supply and there’s the free Atonemo app for Android and iOS smartphones. Streamplayer has a 3.5mm jack that ouptputs both analog and digital signals for feeding a powered speaker, hi-fi or any audio device with an analog or digital input. Simply follow the app’s instructions to connect the Streamplayer to a wireless network and you’re ready to go.

The Antoneo app also includes an EQ function that lets you customize the output of the device to have more bass, boost the mids or tame the treble frequencies. For example, if you have a speaker that’s lacking bottom end, you can use the Antoneo app to dial up a bit more bass.

With the Streamplayer, users can synchronize a number of speakers or audio systems of different brands and vintages. Just attach a Streamplayer and choose either Google Cast or Apple AirPlay 2 for streaming the music. The device can upgrade old tech in minutes and can turn almost any unused pair of speakers or audio system by streaming from a smartphone, tablet, Windows or Mac computer.