Hi

I don;t have a PC permanently connected up at home - but was wondering
if there exists a 'box of tricks' that would allow me to receive radio
off the 'net? (There is a phone line near the hifi rack). The French
station I want is not accessible through DAB and, being in Scotland,
am would be a very weak signal.

I am not interested in taping things to MP3 etc, file sharing or
anything else of that ilk, so the £250 reviewed in HifiNews recently
seems excessive - but would prefer an option with digital out so as to
use the high-end DAC that is already in the system.

thanks for all responses

Salman

"salman_edinburgh" wrote in message
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Hi

I don;t have a PC permanently connected up at home - but was wondering
if there exists a 'box of tricks' that would allow me to receive radio
off the 'net? (There is a phone line near the hifi rack). The French
station I want is not accessible through DAB and, being in Scotland,
am would be a very weak signal.

I am not interested in taping things to MP3 etc, file sharing or
anything else of that ilk, so the £250 reviewed in HifiNews recently
seems excessive - but would prefer an option with digital out so as to
use the high-end DAC that is already in the system.

thanks for all responses

Salman

Audiotron.

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"salman_edinburgh" wrote in message
om...
Hi

I don;t have a PC permanently connected up at home - but was wondering
if there exists a 'box of tricks' that would allow me to receive radio
off the 'net? (There is a phone line near the hifi rack). The French
station I want is not accessible through DAB and, being in Scotland,
am would be a very weak signal.

I am not interested in taping things to MP3 etc, file sharing or
anything else of that ilk, so the £250 reviewed in HifiNews recently
seems excessive - but would prefer an option with digital out so as to
use the high-end DAC that is already in the system.

thanks for all responses

Salman

Audiotron.


oh yeah you might want to consider DSL. I woundn't bother with net radio
over dial-up, and phone calls will mount up too (unless you have all w/end
free calls or another "free talktime" plan. If you get DSL connect the
audiotron upto your gateway/router along with other devices (PC's, network
printers, network HD's) then you can access the higher quality bitrate
stations.

In article ,
salman_edinburgh writes
Hi

I don;t have a PC permanently connected up at home - but was wondering
if there exists a 'box of tricks' that would allow me to receive radio
off the 'net? (There is a phone line near the hifi rack). The French
station I want is not accessible through DAB and, being in Scotland,
am would be a very weak signal.


Which French station in particular?. There a whole lot of them on
satellite both state operated and commercial.

And you shouldn't need a large dish either even in Scotland as the
signals are pretty strong. There was a sat system on offer at Lidl
supermarkets this week for well under 100 quid that would work that just
fine.

Your quite right the DAB signals would be useless there.

Scroll down this lot and see if their listed here

http://www.lyngsat.com/hotbird.html

I am not interested in taping things to MP3 etc, file sharing or
anything else of that ilk, so the £250 reviewed in HifiNews recently
seems excessive - but would prefer an option with digital out so as to
use the high-end DAC that is already in the system.

thanks for all responses

Salman

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Tony Sayer

In article , tony sayer
writes
In article ,
salman_edinburgh writes
Hi

I don;t have a PC permanently connected up at home - but was wondering
if there exists a 'box of tricks' that would allow me to receive radio
off the 'net? (There is a phone line near the hifi rack). The French
station I want is not accessible through DAB and, being in Scotland,
am would be a very weak signal.


Which French station in particular?. There a whole lot of them on
satellite both state operated and commercial.

And you shouldn't need a large dish either even in Scotland as the
signals are pretty strong. There was a sat system on offer at Lidl
supermarkets this week for well under 100 quid that would work that just
fine.

Your quite right the DAB signals would be useless there.

Scroll down this lot and see if their listed here

http://www.lyngsat.com/hotbird.html

I am not interested in taping things to MP3 etc, file sharing or
anything else of that ilk, so the £250 reviewed in HifiNews recently
seems excessive - but would prefer an option with digital out so as to
use the high-end DAC that is already in the system.

thanks for all responses

Salman



Just to add to that, shove the dish just a tad to the left and you can
got some excellent German stations including the Bayern klassik4 and
that will give your external DAC a good workout.

Radio how the BBC could have done it, and about the best broadcast sound
available anywhere


http://www.lyngsat.com/astra19.html
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Tony Sayer