Speakers can be attached, or you can use the optical or analog output to connect the B2 to a receiver. There are a variety of hookup options on the back of the unit. The Brennan will list the Wi-Fi networks it sees, and asks you to input your network password. Plug it in and add the Wi-Fi transceiver to the back if you want the B2 on your network for internet radio or software updates. Setting the B2 up is easy, and a quick start card is included. There is a slot for inserting a CD for playback or ripping. It has a round knob used for volume and navigation of its interface, and small buttons for start/stop, next, back and eject. The Brennan B2 is an attractive and compact audio component.

I expect the Brennan B2 was born to solve a problem Brennan had himself how to listen to a large collection of music in an easy way, with the ability to browse potentially thousands of CDs to play what he wanted.

The Brennan B2 is the brainchild of Martin Brennan, a UK inventor with a small facility in Cambridge. If you wanted to, you could use it as just a normal CD player, but inside the Brennan is a small network friendly computer that will rip and catalog your CDs and make them useful to you where your audio system is, not where your computer system is. It’s only a little wider than a CD jewel case and about as tall as a stack of ten CDs. It’s designed to look like a quality audio component, something you’d have in your office or along with your other HiFi components. The Brennan B2 comes at the problem in a fresh and interesting way. That’s true enough, and there are dozens of solutions to play them, like Sonos or Apple AirPlay. Some readers will undoubtedly say that they already can rip their CDs, and have been doing it for years.

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