Pandora

i don,t know what you are trying to accomplish so hard to say. why not get mog or spotify which can deliver 320kbps instead of the lower quality of pandora? then you could then get better sound quality. if i was going to stream low quality i guess a budget reciever and some bookshelf speakers would work for background music. don,t take that wrong please but my opinion is better gear won,t perform all that well with pandora as the primary source. good luck john

Hello. Many of our customers use the Wadia 171, Cambridge Audio DacMagic, to an integrated amp like the Cambridge 650A to Dynaudio X12's. This makes for a good system without breaking the bank.

I use Pandora daily on my system. It's no match for a CD or SACD, but it sounds good enough to impress anyone that listens. I have to prove to them that it doesn't sound good by pulling out something better. I've been way more impressed that I would have ever anticipated. It's far better sound than my iPod on the dock using similar music files. Pandora is 128 MP3 and it takes Apple Lossless on my iPod to sound equal or better.

You can build quite a nice system and still enjoy an improved Pandora sound, it'll just never sound as good as other sources can.