Buy a used Braun A1/A2 amp (100-200$). There are maintenance handbooks online for both. Replace the two main condensators, which cost about 10-20$ each. Buy a pair of Canton GLE 200 or their presuccessors (100-350$). They didn’t change much in the last 20 years. Still very good, neutral and enough bass for a small living room.
Hook your Technics 1200 MK2/5 (1000$) with an all round needle (100$) to the Phono-In Cinch connectors.
Select your favorite vinyl from your collection, put it on the plate of the 1200. Move the arm on the first track of the vinyl.
Enjoy completely analog music without distractions.
The A1 boots in under 100ms, so does the Technics 1200.
Total costs 1670$.
Beats any Sonos etc. setup in sound quality and convenience.
Disclaimer: I have booth systems in parallel and I feel disgusted and disappointed every time I have to use the Sonos system now.
A possible DIY way is to use a e-ink display connected to a Raspberry Pi and build a script to display content stored on a usb-stick connected to the USB-Port of the Raspi.
There are cheaper e-ink displays by Waveshare.
e.g. the WaveShare 13.3inch e-Paper e-Ink Display HAT For Raspberry Pi for 500€.
You can build a box to house the display and the Raspberry Pi for under 100€…
Add some scripts to download and display the news PDF and you can enjoy it for 1/4 of the price…
Is that really worth it, though? The 13 inch screen from this company is 899€ and already comes in a proper enclosure, and is wireless which seems important for this product. If your goal is to quickly manufacture reliable devices, partnering with someone that already sells a proper device seems totally worth the extra cost.
Not to mention that OP wants a big poster-size screen, so your suggestion comes a few inches short.
It is absolutely worth it! The Visionect display require a subscription to run properly: https://www.visionect.com/software/ .
60 Euro / year to run a display that I paid almost 1k for is not for private use.
I guess that's why the price for the 32 inch display is so high, the subscription is priced in.
I am simply not interested in that sort of limitation on a display device, regardless of the available work arounds. Just sell me an eink monitor and be done with it. This is digital sign technology as can be seen at https://www.visionect.com/products/, and has very little place in the home. It is a waste of resources in that location.
I don't think you can buy a large eink screen as a consumer anywhere because of the shenanigans of the company that owns the eink technology. I forgot the exact details, but it was discussed here several times in the past.
Could you give a few more details on this? While the 32'' screen is a bit too expensive for me, I would probably find interesting usecases for he 16'' version if there weren't the subscription requirement. I don't mind writing my own CMS as long as that's possible.
What are the requirements to make a system work with these? Do you at the end stream bitmaps to the device? Something else? Is there a documented interface?
I've just tried `Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson` as the search input and the results are really compelling and interesting! Keep on the good work.
I might use it to find new tracks for my daily playlist and dj sets!
Disclaimer: I have booth systems in parallel and I feel disgusted and disappointed every time I have to use the Sonos system now.