earwaxer;445828 Wrote: > It just seems to me that wireless has so many advantages, I cant help > but see any wired protocol as a first step in the PC as digital front > end trend, with wireless digital transmission being the goal. > > Wires have always been an overall better choice for analog > transmission. Digital lends itself to being transmitted in bit perfect > fashion over wifi. Forget about the jitter issue, and > clocking/re-clocking that plagues wired protocols. > > If I am missing something please let me know! I know wifi protocols are > "hard to get right", as has been discussed by USB DAC engineers on other > sites.
Even with a Squeezebox or Transporter that can connect both wirelessly or via wired ethernet, the wired ethernet connection is sometimes the only one that many people can use due to wireless interference and/or a weak signal from their wifi router. Someone experiencing dropouts is usually directed to try a wired connection before doing anything else. This is maybe wireless music streaming's biggest drawback and is something that many people just don't ever want to deal with, so they avoid going wireless at all costs. That reason alone erases many of the advantages of running a networked player vs. a USB DAC. The other thing often mentioned is concern about RFI and it's negative impact on sound quality. I think if you're the typical audiophile and you read just one or two respected manufacturers deriding the use of wifi because of the RFI produced, then you would never even consider using it. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66342 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
