I've been thinking (dangerous I know) - the Squeezebox Touch was only really necessary for me to stream wirelessly from my PC upstairs to the hifi downstairs, at the same time looking a whole lot better than putting a computer or even a laptop alongside the neatly arranged separates system in the main living room.
The PC upstairs was going to be the music servers streaming down to the SBT, which in turn would connect to my external DAC. Instead of locking myself into the SBT technology or even the Synology software, I would like the complete freedom of using players and streaming technology from the far more versatile Windows PC (JRiver, Spotify, Foobar and so it goes on). There are various DACs that allow for this, such as the Arcam rDAC with wireless, however I have already invested in a DAC, and it's not wireless. So I figured that I will devise a way to effectively extend the USB link from the PC to the DAC by way of a wireless USB 2.0 extender such as this http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=4505. This particular example is expensive, so I have found other similar ideas which will hopefully achieve the same thing. Seems like a very neat and easy solution if it works like it should do, thus effectively turning my existing DAC into a wireless DAC. Remote control would be via a smart phone or tablet to the PC upstairs... I will put that plan into action!! I like it... and I like the way it isolates me from the electrically noisy PC environment at the same time as giving me the versatility of a PC.. Watch this space... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ stop-spinning's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43254 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96308 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
