Hi all
Have now decided exactly what to do with my hifi stuff. In my circumstances
I am looking at the xitel hifi link.
A friend of mine has one. She is very very particular regarding sound and
is very satisfied with it. It seems to be a no nonsense little DAC with
clear sound. For a
I have two of them. They work very well. Essentially, they become the
default sound card for your computer so you'll need to designate your
computer's sound card to be used with your screen reader. They do cause a
bit of a mess with the wires and keeping the 2 different DACs straight, in
my
I don't use the Xitel HIFI 100 any more but it should do what you want!
Unless you are using an old Windows XP machine, you don't need to install
any drivers. it has analog and toslink digital outs. I have it packed away
so I can't immediately check to see if it has an SPDIF out on it.
Clifford
I will probably be using it as my primary sound card anyway as I have an
induction loop system connected to one of the outputs of my Nad amplifier
which I use to listen to speech because of a hearing loss.
Thanx for the feedback. This seems to be the way I will go then.
Here's a review of it, make of it what you will.
http://www.cnet.com/au/products/xitel-hifi-link/
On 22/04/2015 10:44 PM, André van Deventer wrote:
Hi all
Have now decided exactly what to do with my hifi stuff. In my circumstances
I am looking at the xitel hifi link.
A friend of
Hi all
Changed the subject line but to some extent it is still related to the
lossless streaming of music.
Is it at all viable to use Bluetooth to stream lossless music from two
rooms situated next to each other.
This might also be an option for me to use.
Unfortuantely my
Another angle on this.
If you can stream music to your computer from your iphone through the
airport express, can you do it the other way round, i.e. stream music from
your to your iphone?
Just curious.
André
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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]
This arrived about 10 minutes ago, took me all of 2 minutes to get the
device connected to my Home Network but I knew that would be the case.
Small ain't it, its far smaller than the Airport Express and plugs
directly into a wall outlet like an AC Plugpack so I'm going to have to
find a
As list members know, the Internet for me would be absolutely nothing
without Google, the following link is a collection of guides and
references to the powerful Google Now facility available on Android
devices and other assoicated pieces of equipment, its amazing what the
power of one's voice
Hallo Andre
I hear what you say. I do have an Bt transmitter and receiver but I do find
that there is a loss in quality, especially when the two devices are more
than five meters apart. In the same room, no problem but even in adjacent
rooms with a brick wall between, I can hear a bit of drop
You have to get Bluetooth adapters and receivers that are capable of
Lossless Bluetooth streaming and most are not.
Its pretty hit and miss when you're talking about streaming via
Bluetooth when the devices are in different rooms.
And finally, the iPhone is not capable of streaming Lossless
Replying to my own email smile
I forgot to mention that Airfoil Speakers is also available for Android
though I think the name is different, if you looking for the App on
iTunes and in the Google Play Store respectively look for Airfoil
Speakers Touch.
On 22/04/2015 6:11 PM, Dane
Hello Dane and list
Well, let me disclose my ignorance: what is meant by lossless?
Regards
Fanus
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From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net
To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: lossless
To put it bluntly, think of Lossless Streaming as if you had two devices
each connected by a good quality physical audio/video cable or cables.
On 22/04/2015 6:28 PM, Fanus wrote:
Hello Dane and list
Well, let me disclose my ignorance: what is meant by lossless?
Regards
Fanus
- Original
Hello Andre
Not with the Express because it does not have an input port.
Regards
Fanus
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From: André van Deventer andred...@webafrica.org.za
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 8:02 AM
Subject: RE: SV: lossless music
Hallo Andre
Unfortunately the express keeps the voiceover speech on the phone or if you
transmit from PC the jrfw speech stays on the pc. Bluetooth does transmit
the speech but as I stated at least with cheap bt devices there is a slight
reduction in quality.
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With Airfoile you should be able to do this actually but the problem
then would be that there would be a delay, AirPlay, DLNA - or even
Bluetooth - was never really designed with Screen Reading Software in mind.
On 22/04/2015 5:25 PM, André van Deventer wrote:
Fanus
Thanx man
My problem is
Fanus
Thanx man
My problem is that the hifi is connected to my induction loop through I
also have to listen to the computer speech. It seems that the airport
express will not allow me to transmit the computer speech as well as the
music through wifi?
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From:
Yep, use an App called Airfoil Speakers.
On 22/04/2015 4:02 PM, André van Deventer wrote:
Another angle on this.
If you can stream music to your computer from your iphone through the
airport express, can you do it the other way round, i.e. stream music from
your to your iphone?
Just
So, if I plug one end of a cable into my iPhone's headphone sock and the
other end into my hifi's aux input, that will be lossless and when I stream
with my Express it will be digital? is the difference then analog versus
digital?
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From: Dane Trethowan
Yes, the link between devices is a lossless digital one. Problem is
that the signal will be somewhat degraded by the DAC - Digital To
Analoge Converter - in the iPhone but we've being a little picky here
and there's probably not all that much you can do about it unless you're
prepared to
Won't work in my situation unfortunately. I have to use braille quite a
lot.
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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: 22 April 2015 11:31 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: lossless streaming via bluetooth
Fanus
As I understand the thing wifi is lossless streaming. With Bluetooth the
data has to be compressed in order to allow it to be streamed across
Bluetooth. This means that you lose sound quality as you have already
mentioned you experienced. This is not the case with wifi as I understand
Using a headphone out socket on any device will also seriously degrade the
sound quality as the impedence between the input of the amplifier and the
headphone output differs greatly. The inputs on an amplifier are high
impedence while the headphone socket has a much lower output which causes
an
Exactly and that's where the external DAC comes into its own, on the one
I have you can make adjustments to match the headphones or the amp
you're using.
On 22/04/2015 8:57 PM, André van Deventer wrote:
Using a headphone out socket on any device will also seriously degrade the
sound quality
That's correct yes so - to to add to the complexity of the whole thing -
if you're playing a MP3 file and you stream it over most Bluetooth
systems then not only are you streaming data which already has a loss of
quality due to compression, you're also compressing it again streaming
to the
I'm beginning to think that the only way will be to route a cable between
the two rooms. It does seem that my need to also stream the sound of the
screen reader may preclude any other way!!
-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Either that or you could use your iPhone or Android device, that way you
have the voice wherever you go with you and your streaming going to your
stereo system independent of the speech.
On 22/04/2015 7:06 PM, André van Deventer wrote:
I'm beginning to think that the only way will be to
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