[Jenn]

I know that I can research this in depth, but for just a quick/dirty
answer while some students take a quiz:

If I wanted to go the "play music from your computer through your home
audio gear, a good route might be: My Mac PowerBook (I don't have a
desktop anymore) with large external drive which would contain sound
files losslessly ripped, then wireless transmission to something like
Airport Express, which I would plug into an Aux input on my preamp. CD
quality sound, right?

Thanks

[Bill Riel]

In article jennconductsREMOVETHIS-612DA6.13135903122007
@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com,
says...
I know that I can research this in depth, but for just a quick/dirty
answer while some students take a quiz:

If I wanted to go the "play music from your computer through your home
audio gear, a good route might be: My Mac PowerBook (I don't have a
desktop anymore) with large external drive which would contain sound
files losslessly ripped, then wireless transmission to something like
Airport Express, which I would plug into an Aux input on my preamp. CD
quality sound, right?

As far as I know, that should be correct. I have a similar setup at
home, but because I've got a mixed Mac/PC environment I use a Squeezebox
connected to my receiver instead of Airport Express.

The one advantage of the squeezebox is that you can control your
playlist via remote at your stereo. Using Airport Express you'd have to
control the playlist through the notebook (using iTunes).

But, I'm pretty sure that lossless files transmitted this way will sound
identical to CDs.

--
Bill

[Jenn]

In article ,
Bill Riel wrote:

In article jennconductsREMOVETHIS-612DA6.13135903122007
@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com,
says...
I know that I can research this in depth, but for just a quick/dirty
answer while some students take a quiz:

If I wanted to go the "play music from your computer through your home
audio gear, a good route might be: My Mac PowerBook (I don't have a
desktop anymore) with large external drive which would contain sound
files losslessly ripped, then wireless transmission to something like
Airport Express, which I would plug into an Aux input on my preamp. CD
quality sound, right?

As far as I know, that should be correct. I have a similar setup at
home, but because I've got a mixed Mac/PC environment I use a Squeezebox
connected to my receiver instead of Airport Express.

The one advantage of the squeezebox is that you can control your
playlist via remote at your stereo. Using Airport Express you'd have to
control the playlist through the notebook (using iTunes).

But, I'm pretty sure that lossless files transmitted this way will sound
identical to CDs.

--
Bill

Thanks for the info

[Clyde Slick]

On 3 Dec, 16:14, Jenn wrote:
I know that I can research this in depth, but for just a quick/dirty
answer while some students take a quiz:

If I wanted to go the "play music from your computer through your home
audio gear, a good route might be: My Mac PowerBook (I don't have a
desktop anymore) with large external drive which would contain sound
files losslessly ripped, then wireless transmission to something like
Airport Express, which I would plug into an Aux input on my preamp. CD
quality sound, right?

Thanks

sort of

Don't use an external drive, keep files on internal, or swap out
playlists, but play from the internal.

get a decent DAC that can communicate with your pc.\
in order of preference
optical, firewire or USB
send out in digital from your pc to the dac
..the key is a decent dac
don't use airport express

forget wireless, just wire form pc to dac, to preamp.

and right, use lossless ripping like flac
use EAC program to rip

[Jenn]

In article
,
Clyde Slick wrote:

On 3 Dec, 16:14, Jenn wrote:
I know that I can research this in depth, but for just a quick/dirty
answer while some students take a quiz:

If I wanted to go the "play music from your computer through your home
audio gear, a good route might be: My Mac PowerBook (I don't have a
desktop anymore) with large external drive which would contain sound
files losslessly ripped, then wireless transmission to something like
Airport Express, which I would plug into an Aux input on my preamp. CD
quality sound, right?

Thanks

sort of

Don't use an external drive, keep files on internal, or swap out
playlists, but play from the internal.

get a decent DAC that can communicate with your pc.\
in order of preference
optical, firewire or USB
send out in digital from your pc to the dac
.the key is a decent dac
don't use airport express

forget wireless, just wire form pc to dac, to preamp.

and right, use lossless ripping like flac
use EAC program to rip

Interesting..thanks

[George M. Middius]

Jenn said:

If I wanted to go the "play music from your computer through your home
audio gear, a good route might be: My Mac PowerBook (I don't have a
desktop anymore) with large external drive which would contain sound
files losslessly ripped, then wireless transmission to something like
Airport Express, which I would plug into an Aux input on my preamp. CD
quality sound, right?

I am withholding my opinion on this question until after the Krooborg
finishes snotting all over the thread.

[Clyde Slick]

On 3 Dec, 16:39, George M. Middius cmndr _ george @ comcast . net
wrote:
Jenn said:

If I wanted to go the "play music from your computer through your home
audio gear, a good route might be: My Mac PowerBook (I don't have a
desktop anymore) with large external drive which would contain sound
files losslessly ripped, then wireless transmission to something like
Airport Express, which I would plug into an Aux input on my preamp. CD
quality sound, right?

I am withholding my opinion on this question until after the Krooborg
finishes snotting all over the thread.

I have three sermons at the ready.

[Arny Krueger]

"Jenn" wrote in
message

I know that I can research this in depth, but for just a
quick/dirty answer while some students take a quiz:

If I wanted to go the "play music from your computer
through your home audio gear, a good route might be: My
Mac PowerBook (I don't have a desktop anymore) with large
external drive which would contain sound files losslessly
ripped, then wireless transmission to something like
Airport Express, which I would plug into an Aux input on
my preamp. CD quality sound, right?

Depending on your laptop's hard drive and your requirements for storting
music, you might not need that external drive.

If you do go the external drive route, firewire is probably the better
choice for you. If your laptop's hard drive is really small, upgrading it is
an option if that kind of tech support is available to you.

I think that others have listed the popular alternatives to the Airport
express.

Something wireless makes a lot of sense since the host is a laptop.

[Jenn]

In article ,
"Arny Krueger" wrote:

"Jenn" wrote in
message

I know that I can research this in depth, but for just a
quick/dirty answer while some students take a quiz:

If I wanted to go the "play music from your computer
through your home audio gear, a good route might be: My
Mac PowerBook (I don't have a desktop anymore) with large
external drive which would contain sound files losslessly
ripped, then wireless transmission to something like
Airport Express, which I would plug into an Aux input on
my preamp. CD quality sound, right?

Depending on your laptop's hard drive and your requirements for storting
music, you might not need that external drive.

If you do go the external drive route, firewire is probably the better
choice for you. If your laptop's hard drive is really small, upgrading it is
an option if that kind of tech support is available to you.

I think that others have listed the popular alternatives to the Airport
express.

Something wireless makes a lot of sense since the host is a laptop.

Thanks for the info