Why not more wireless connections?

ghdprentice

Aurender has introduced the new N50 which is a three box solution and cost $38K. These devices may be operated off a wifi extender and give sound quality comparable to an analog system of similar cost ... The lure that has made these "wireless" devices possible ...

Just to be clear, I'm pretty sure none of the Aurender streamers are truly "wireless." Rather, they're designed for wired ethernet. To get them to work wirelessly, a wifi dongle is required, or you need to run ethernet cable from the wifi router or extender. For some of us, that's rather like a kludge. I think there's a reason Aurender doesn't include wifi capability, even on an apparently "cost no object" 38K component.

@cleeds 

Correct. But they operate perfectly off of wifi extenders.

They are effective because the utterly isolate themselves from the input, cashing all the bits.

@ghdprentice 

cashing all the bits

Surely they cash a lot of your money, but cache the bits!

Because it dies not sound good

My system is essentially wireless (but only partially).  My streamer (Linn ADSM/3 with Katalyst) requires an ethernet connection.  This is not convenient  in my house setup.  I tested it with an ethernet cable stretched across the room, across a hallway, and across another room.  It sounded fantastic.  I then move one of my mesh satellites next to my streamer and ran a short ethernet from the satellite to the ADSM.  Basically I fooled my streamer into thinking it was hardwired to the internet, while in reality it was running wireless.  I COULD HEAR NO DIFFERENCE IN QUALITY!!!