Howard Turkster;612097 Wrote: > I've tried ethernet over powerline and I feel the sound quality degrades > significantly over a direct ethernet connection. > > WIFI is fine in my home for other purposes but I don't want to stream > my music via wifi. As I was trying to indicate earlier, *why* I don't > want to is a whole 'nother debate that I'm not really trying to get > started right now. :) > > For me the bottom line is this -- I know I can do what I want to do via > a netbook connected directly to the Touch. It's already worked. > > I want to find a way to use a VBA or similar appliance in the same > fashion that I have already done with the netbook. How do I do it? > :P > > If I can just buy a $10-$40 device to stick in between them, I'll > gladly do it.
i don't want to get into the other debate either. But I do just have to say, that if the network connection isn't good (whether wifi or ethernet, or homeplug, etc.) it doesn't "degrade" sound quality. It causes dropouts, silence, excessive buffering, etc. It doesn't "reduce soundstage, remove depth, etc.). Bits are bits and no one should try to adapt analog music connection issues to digital transportation of bits. If the WIFI is strong, the bits arriving at the TOUCH will be identical to the bits arriving via ethernet. But again, I know you didn't want to go there, so I'm not expecting a response on this. But to answer your question. No. you can't use the VBA the way you are wanting to. You might as well hook your netbook (with music on it, or connected via USB drive) up near your DAC, connect the netbook to the DAC, the DAC to the stereo, and leave the TOUCH out of the equation. There is no internet radio you can get via the touch that you can't just get on your netbook with about any player (foobar2000, winamp, itunes, etc.) -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85420 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
