"CJT" wrote in message
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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.

The server-based solutions don't require a PC in every room - that's the
whole point of them.

You have one PC, which stores your audio collection. And in other rooms you
have network music devices. You can use different devices in different
rooms - so, for example, in your hi-fi room, you might use a £200 Squeezebox
with its digital output connected to a hi-fi DAC and audio system; and in a
bedroom you might have a £70 Netgear MP101, maybe using its headphone output
to drive a pair of earphones, or maybe using its line output connected to an
audio system.

Whenever you rip or download audio files, you store them on the central
server, so they are accessible to all your network music devices.

Tim







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