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Pure Music Question

I have a question about how to use Pure Music with a wireless system. I currently have three systems, one using an Airport Express and two using Apple TV's connected to external DAC's. Music resides in a 1 TB hard drive connected via an Apple Airport wireless. Everything is controlled by iTunes running on an iMac using an iPod Touch with the Remote app.

I have downloaded the Pure Music demo and run into a hitch. It launches seamlessly but fails to play through any of the "speakers" I have selected in iTunes. When playing straight through iTunes without PM, no problem. It does play through my iMac speakers and I think sounds like a big improvement, but who listens through internal desktop speakers?

I have been able to highjack the PM stream and direct it to my systems using Airfoil, but short of using a desktop controller on my iPod Touch, nothing else works. PM seems like a great and reasonably priced upgrade, but to make it practical, I need to be able to use my Touch to control iTunes remotely while PM is running. I have spoken with PM's tech support, but no luck.

Any ideas?
bbopman

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agear
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Bbopman, PM does not work with WiFi yet. They are apparently working on it (I spoke to them). Apple has some encryption involved that blocks "third party" software access to the WiFi stream. Airfoil does allow you to hack into the WiFi stream and thus use PM, but I found that it compressed things sonically. Amarra does work without Airfoil due to the pecularities of its software design (uses some aspects of Itunes whereas PM apparently does not).
agear
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Bbopman, I am primarily a Redbook man as well (600+ CDs) and feel no real compulsion to pursue Hi Rez at this time. I have Redbook CDs that blows away hi rez material I have heard (24/176). Most of the music I know and love is in that format already and I am not willing to fork out the $ for hi rez duplicates. Paul Weitzel from TRL (the maker of my pre-amp) has done a lot of recording for Sony and others and says that their is plenty of resolution in Redbook. The problem is primarily one of execution/implementation.

I did fiddle with PM and Airfoil and found that combination shrunk the soundstage and was anemic sounding. Weird.

Placebo? LOL....could well be.....95%+ of audio could be thrown into that category....
agear
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Bbopman, the remote App works fine with PM. The only thing is you cannot make use of the digital volume control which is no loss since it degrades the sound anyway IMO.
agear
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Very nice Timztunz. I am planning on snagging a Pad. I will look for that app. Does it work on N-networks? I know the Remote app does not....
agear
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Nice....
agear
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Jayboard, I have found the same to be true. The improvements are not subtle. I was skeptical about a piece of software effecting wireless music reproduction. I thought it was simply a matter of reconstructing the 1 and 0s. Steve Nugent at Empirical Audio (a former Intel chip engineer) told me otherwise. He was right.
agear
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I don't think so. WiFi is still limited to 16/44.1 whether its an airport express or apple tv....
agear
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Tpy, I would check with the PM gang....
agear
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That's what I figured. Why not make your life easy and just use mac products? Airport Express, Iphone/Itouch as a remote, and a wifi router (I use an Airport Extreme). You will still need Airfoil if you want to use PM. That's what I do...
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