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In Reply to: Access audio from another room? posted by rick57 on October 26, 2006 at 20:22:21:
Use your PC as controller in your main room and use a Squeezebox in the other. Slimserver is not perfect but it is very workable. You can run iTunes and Slim Server simultaneously. And you can run whatever program material you want in each room. Plus you get streaming Internet radio which gets better daily, including a computer free option. And you get your choice of SPDIF or analog outs. Very respectable as is for many, cost effectively upgraded to satisfy all but the very pickiest at Bolder Cable. Or you could pop for their Transporter.Wireless works fine for many - it's room specific
Option B is to look into Airport Express
A high quality sound card (almost an oxymoron) will cost more and do less
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If you want to distribute the audio signal from your DAC, the right way to do it will be balanced (XLR) at +4 not single ended RCA at -10. You may also find that you need a distribution amplifier of some kind. Hopefully all your gear will magically turn up on the same phase leg and you won't have any insoluble ground loop problems between the two rigs...Please note that any kind of scheme like this is purely analog and takes absolutely no advantage of Moore's law or any other digital goodness. And will cost more...
And you still end up with a significant problem which is how do you control the source from the second room... (yes you can have a local volume pot) but you can't select your tunes which is one of the principal advantages of a digital approach.
I hadn't heard of the Airport Express; look around seems to show less $ than a Squeezebox, for less functionality.> Use your PC as controller in your main room and use a Squeezebox in the other
Am I right that you need to buy the Squeezebox and PC software, min total about US $500?
$250 wired, $300 wireless - no charge for the squeezebox software - you can download it for free.
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