Two things. Don't worry about wifi vs Ethernet regarding sound quality. They are equal. You won't get subtle degradation of sound with bad wifi connection. You'll get dropouts or buffering. If your wifi works well, it's great. If you have wifi interference or weak signal leading to dropouts, then use Ethernet or Ethernet over powerline adapters.
Also, there are some improvements in PC sound with win 7 and win8, but these have absolutely nothing to do with sound from your squeezebox players. Even if your PC had no sound card or audio reproduction system, you could use it and LMS to feed your squeezeboxes. That's the beauty of the way squeezeboxes work. And one reason they were originally designed -- to get the PC sound card etc out of the playback chain. *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.8 > Squeezelite *Spares:* several Touch, Radio, SB3 *Controllers:* iPhone4S & iPad2 (iPeng7 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpoweramp > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102060 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
