Mark Lanctot;185668 Wrote: > As Skunk pointed out, what is going on if you're receiveing wireless is > that the wireless card is active and (potentially) emitting > electromagnetic interference which could (potentially) be picked up in > the audio circuits. It's as likely as the Squeezebox processor > affecting the audio stream, which IMHO isn't likely at all...but it's > remotely possible.
There's no 'potentially' about it - an 802.11g interface is a radio transmitter - plenty powerful enough to be picked up by your WAP on the other side of the house, and undoubtedly going to be picked up as interference by analogue circuits inside the same box. I'm actually quite surprised that more people haven't mentioned this - we have talk of alleged or potential interference from the display, from the PSU and from the added load on the CPU when we change formats, but little mention of the intentional radio transmitter. Of course, my hearing doesn't extend all the way up to 2.4GHz, but you can hear 900MHz interference from a mobile phone easily on unshielded equipment. (Of course, what you're hearing in this case is the modulation, not the 900MHz fundamental - if anyone can describe to me the modulation pattern of a Wi-Fi transmitter than I'd be interested to know. I've never actually heard interference from one, but then again I've never heard interference from a CD player's front panel display either). -- AndyC_772 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndyC_772's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10472 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32999 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
