Net Gear sells a device that uses electrical wiring for ethernet connection. It's inexpensive and seems to work well.
I tried it. Noisy and poor SQ.
Steve N.
Digital Files and Wi-Fi
@audioengr ... would I have to use a computer monitor to access a library management tool if I went the Bluesound route, or could I use a tablet? Thanks. Not trying to intercept this message! But no, you do not need a computer to do anything. Bluesound was developed, in part, to allow one to use their smartphone or tablet as a controller or remote (if you will) for your digital audio files. The files must be on a readable HDD or NAS in file folders. In that way you are using an external hard drive or computer hard drive, not operating system or monitor. Sometimes metadata or album art is not readable by the file system Bluesound uses. Once you tag the artwork and music files so that Bluesound can see and play them you are fine. |
Steve, I have not - sound is as clean as it gets. I don’t think it matters what the format is, as long as it is lossless and conversion is lossless - at the end it is sent in packets anyway (making timing irrelevant). AE is bit perfect, as it was confirmed in Stereophile test. In my case computer doesn’t even have to convert, since I keep my CDs in ALAC. |