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RE: Cannot set up a Computer for audio - get a network streamer

People use tablets with wi-fi to control streamers. They use them to control other things as well. If the streamer is dumb and depends upon some other computer for control then that computer may need to be controlled by wi-fi.

A streamer is just as much a computer as any other computer, according to the things that it can do to your audio equipment. If the streamer is in your audio room and/or connected to the rest of your audio stack it can degrade the sound. The test for this is to listen to an analog source with the streamer in various situations:

1. unplugged from AC and from preamp
2. plugged into AC but switched off and unplugged from preamp
3. plugged into AC and switched on, connected to file source, but unplugged from preamp,

etc.. Depending on what you hear, other tests will be appropriate.

The reason why I suggested using an analog source is because even an ordinary CD player contains a computer.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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