I found this option was, un, not an option for me about 5 years ago when I picked up a little Sherwood S7100 (for free!). It’s in excellent condition and is a nice unit for my office. It sounds surprisingly good and has a great mid-century look to it…but the on/off switch is part of the volume knob: twist right, there’s a springy “click” and it’s on.
I read that these switches are prone to break, and when they do you’re hosed: there’s no replacement knob assembly available. I see these for $450 these days, but back then it wasn’t very valuable, so getting a service tech to bypass wasn’t economically prudent.
Enter the original Kasa mini smartplug. I leave the receiver on, and tell Google to “turn on the office stereo” when I want to listen. These plugs were ridiculously expensive back then, but they last - I am still using the original one I got then and have 5-6 more around the house.
I found this option was, un, not an option for me about 5 years ago when I picked up a little Sherwood S7100 (for free!). It’s in excellent condition and is a nice unit for my office. It sounds surprisingly good and has a great mid-century look to it…but the on/off switch is part of the volume knob: twist right, there’s a springy “click” and it’s on.
I read that these switches are prone to break, and when they do you’re hosed: there’s no replacement knob assembly available. I see these for $450 these days, but back then it wasn’t very valuable, so getting a service tech to bypass wasn’t economically prudent.
Enter the original Kasa mini smartplug. I leave the receiver on, and tell Google to “turn on the office stereo” when I want to listen. These plugs were ridiculously expensive back then, but they last - I am still using the original one I got then and have 5-6 more around the house.