Hi,
I did a very simular thing. Instead of getting a netbook though, I
purchased a Asus Eee Box. It's simular to the Eee P C , but it's a very
compact desktop. I have it hooked to my stereo and it has both wireless
N and gigibit lan. The onboard sound is great for speech. I use a
creative xmod for music, and it seems to do the job quite well. I leave
it on 24/7 , it only uses a very little amount of power compared to my
full sized p c's.
hth
Mike,
kq6...@gmail.com
Constantine wrote:
Why not get a netbook? You could just plug a cable from that into your
audio center.
Netbooks cost anywhere from 300 to 400 dollars. I highly recommend the
asus lineup. I might add here that if you need to do simple line in
recording, the microphone jack works good with that, surprisingly.
I personally own the asus 900 ha, but its getting a bit old;if your
looking for battery life (I'm guessing your not, but anyway) there's a
new 1000 he out there that has a wapping 9.5 hours battery life, comes
with wireless and bluetooth and costs 330 bucks.
hth
contact details:
email: tcwoo...@shaw.ca
and others
msn: the_conman...@hotmail.com
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system details:
Hp pavillion dv5220CA notebook pc
AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37 2.0 GHZ, 1024 mb DDR ram,
Fujitsu 100 gb 4500 RPM Hard Drive, connecsant AC-link audio
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Matzura"
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To: "pc-audio" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:22 AM
Subject: Streaming Audio to a Non-Networked Device
I'm always after a better solution to my same old problem of streaming
Internet audio to a non-Internet device, such as my living-room
entertainment center, or my bedside radio. I'm so disgusted with the
FM transmitter thing because of all the metal studs in my walls, I'm
once again looking at something I can use with my wireless router, put
it anywhere, and plug it up to an audio device as described above. A
Media Center PC might be a good alternative, but are they under $500
yet? The $500 price point is based on the price of a rather
interesting piece of gear from Logitech that will do the job and even
allow direct access to one's own media library, but of course it's
hopelessly inaccessible by a totally blind person. The Media Center
PC, however, could be made accessible simply by installing a
screenreader on it, even if it's Narrator or one of the free ones out
there--we're not doing rocket science projects on it, we're just
picking music and playing it, so it won't matter how good the
screenreader is or isn't. Like I said, even Narrator'll do for this
purpose! And for your five portraits of Mr. Franklin, you get a real
computer to boot!
Has anybody had any experience with any of these streaming products
like the Logitech one? Or is it your considered opinion to go the PC
or cheap Mac route?
Thanks in advance.
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