"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
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I expect all these devices compress the audio data before streaming it.
Not hi-fi at all.

Ah, so I guess the product you were talking about the other week was the
Olive, and it's you who's been spamming these newsgroups about it.

OK. Well, we already know you were wrong about the Netgear, because the
network traffic measurements clearly showed the server software was not
compressing .wav files before transmitting them over the wireless network.

Still, the Netgear does not have digital out. I guess the acid test would
be the $900 Olive versus the $300 Squeezebox, both using their digital
outputs to connect to a hi-fi DAc and audio system; and then we'd see if
any listeners could detect a quality difference in .wav files transmitted
over a wireless network to the $300 Squeezbox compared with the $900 Olive.

Tim