PC Connection to Stereo

[John]

Does anyone have good product suggestions to connect a PC to a typical home
stereo via wireless?

I looked into Airport Express from Apple, but it appears that the product
only works with iTunes.

I'd like to be able to listen to anything from my PC on my home stereo. I
listen to XM online, Major League Baseball, iTunes, etc.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

John

[wkearney99]

An FM transmitter is one way. Do a search for 'usb fm transmitter'

I've got a Linex unit and it works reasonably well. Fidelity is typical FM
quality. It makes it easy to listen to the mp3 tracks while mowing the lawn
without deafening the neighbors cranking it out the rock speakers.

Other solutions would be to use something like those X-10 2.4gHz video
senders. Just use the audio side. Don't expect much in the way of distance
or fidelity but it works.

Finally, never rule out just running wire. The quality's usually a lot
better.


"John" > wrote in message news:OSY9e.6581$NU4.960@attbi_s22...
> Does anyone have good product suggestions to connect a PC to a typical
home
> stereo via wireless?
>
> I looked into Airport Express from Apple, but it appears that the product
> only works with iTunes.
>
> I'd like to be able to listen to anything from my PC on my home stereo. I
> listen to XM online, Major League Baseball, iTunes, etc.

[wkearney99]

50 feet at line level might not be too much of a problem. I'd use as good a
quality cable as you can provide. Sure, there's always possible signal loss
issues with longer runs of cabling. But if you use something like 18 gauge
wire then 50 feet should be reasonably good. Using RadioShaft cheapies,
however, would probably be less than ideal. They tend to be 24 gauge
stranded and that's not usually good for very much distance.

Bear in mind I'm talking about line-level signal, not speaker level. This
is the line-out jack on your PC, not the speaker connection. Trying to
drive speaker levels would certainly benefit from lower gauge wire (like 14
gauge or so).

Also, when measuring, be sure you account for the *whole* distance. From
the PC, across the desk, down to the floor (or up a wall), across the room
and back up and across to the equipment. There's usually another 12 feet or
so beyond just the lateral distance.

-Bill Kearney

----- Original Message -----
From: "JAD" >


> The problem with running wire is that I'd need to go at least 50 ft. I've
> heard that sending a PC output that far can cause distortion. Have you
> heard that?