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Old August 31st 05, 10:57 AM posted to sci.electronics.design,sci.electronics.repair,alt.engineering.electrical,rec.audio.tech,uk.rec.audio
Tim Martin
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Default Wireless audio distribution?


"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
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What's an SB2 ?

Is it wireless ?


Squeezebox 2; yes, it's wireless. You place one in each room where you
want to hear sound; and you have a single computer in your home storing all
the music. The music is stored uncompressed or compressed, and transmitted
over the Ethernet wired or wireless network the way it is stored. The
Squeezebox 2 can provide analog or digital output.

The Squeezebox 2 costs about $300 for each room, which makes it the most
expensive of the available solutions for computer-server based wireless
distribution of uncompressed digital audio files. Still, the non-computer
based solutions seem to cost $1000 for each room each right now.

Of course with the computer-based solutions you can have the Squeezebox 2 in
some rooms, and lower-cost devices such as the $100 Netgear MP101 in others.

Tim