Elsewhere, I told someone he should get a Squeezebox instead of a sound card. Here's what another poster replied:
> Nostromos suggestion is a very reasonable alternative in my estimation > that will provide more power than a sound card alone (if you want that) > and has the additional benefit that it avoids running wires. The > downside to his suggestion, which is true for all wireless systems, is > the potential for signal interference that will affect the sound > quality. To this, I replied: > It doesn't affect sound quality per se. Remember, the computer is not > sending the sound itself to the streamer, only the digital information. > The streamer is producing the sound. If there are problems with the > signal, you'll only get silence, not poor sound quality. And his answer was: > True enough, but even microsecond sound gaps will be experienced by a > discerning listener as a loss of sound quality. One may not know that > the gap is there only that something "doesnt sound right". Not sure what to answer to this. I wonder if microsecond sound gaps are even possible. When I have wireless problems, it just stops. I don't remember experiencing any stuttering... -- Nostromo http://www.last.fm/user/Guermantez/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nostromo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6322 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80087
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