Pooh Bear wrote:

Tim Martin wrote:


"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,


No - but I saw a post in r.a.p about it and it looked like spam.


and it's you who's been spamming these newsgroups about it.


Certainly not me.



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.


You're mistaken about the context.

I've only ever mentioned *standalone* wireless audio links in this thread since
the OP wanted a *simple* solution.

Other ppl - like you introduced entire whole server based solutions. I know
these can transfer audio at native bit rate but a PC in every room just to
distribute audio is overkill, impractical, non user-friendly, nopisy and just
plain DUMB !


Agreed. So don't use PCs to do it. I use Sun Rays. Cheap, silent,
reliable.


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


I guess you missed the Nordic Semi product I mentioned ? It's standalone.


Graham



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