This can be made so very simple, buy an Apple Airport Express plug it into the Line-in of your Hi-Fi in the other room and stream to your hearts content.

If your Hi-Fi has a digital input then you can make full use of this by using the digital output of the Airport Express.

You can also put the Airport Express to good use as an extra Wireless Access Point, Wireless Extender etc.

I think the Airport Express is only $50 now, about the same cost as a good RCA lead and yep, I wouldn't like to risk running a long RCA lead, the possability of more interference and loss of quality is certainly there.

I don't want to brag but streaming around my house is my passion so yeah, I like to think I know one or two things about streaming or getting audio/video from one location to another <smile>.



On 20/04/2015 2:46 AM, André van Deventer wrote:
Hi all

Am moving to a new flat and have to sort out my sound stuff now.

I play all my music through the computer now.  My hifi system will be
standing in one room and my computer in another one.

So I need to get the sound from one to the other.

I have the following options:

1.        Using the output of a digital to audio converter  and lay down an
RCA to RCA cable of quite a few meters from one room to the other.  This
might be the cheapest way.  But with such a long cable you will start to
find interference  as these cables are not supposed to be so long.   And you
do also get some sound reduction.

2.        Using some kind of LAN device.  I do not know if such a thing
exist at all – a device with which you can stream  music ythrough LAN that
has an analog output.   It would also necessitate the laying of long cables
which could also be a problem.

3.        Then there is the option I may want to examine.  My question is
whether with the technology available today it is possible to stream music
in lossless format through a WIFI connection.  I would like to do this using
my media player of choice which is Foobar 2000 at present.  I don’t want to
use Itunes as I find it cumbersome and limited.

Any suggestions about which way to go?


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