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Apple Aiport Express........ cool

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Posted on August 8, 2004 at 10:55:09
Ruben
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Location: San Francisco, California
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Hey,
I am listening to my music in my Musical Fidelity system feed with my apple powerbook hard drive music via I tunes. The aiport express is a wi-fi plugged to the Musical Fidelity DAC. Most of my music in encoded on AAC. I have try playing CD's in my powerbook then transmitting wireless to the express airport stattion.

The sound is great and the ability to play anything in your collection in any order you want to is great. I believe that is going to be the main contribution of hard drive music; the ability to play anything in any order. That is a revolution! The LP was great because for the first time allowed music to be freed from the 3 minute limit of 78's, The CD's is great for the ability to forward and rewind songs. Hard Drive music gives you the ability to make a playlist with the music of your choice. I have about 250 cd's copied in to my hard drive. That i s a lot of music to choose from. As hard drive gets cheaper (about $1 per Gig) the options are just going to get better.

Sound quality is not a problem because it plays the music at any level of quality.



Ruben

San Francisco, California

 

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Re: Apple Aiport Express........ cool, posted on August 15, 2004 at 09:18:04
TimTaylor
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Location: SoCal
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Hi Ruben,

Cool! I've been looking at the Airport products as a way of adding flexibility and wiring simplicity to my home. I think you're early adoption and success of "hard drive" music delivery provides further proof of its inevitability. Looks like fun, sadly I have no funds or time to go there.

Regarding your statement "Sound quality is not a problem because it plays the music at any level of quality". I'm guessing that refers to a selectable rate, but are there inherent sources of degradation in this chain? Is the powered Express module/hardwired to your DAC sonically transparent?

Thanks for sharing your experience.

 

it is....., posted on August 15, 2004 at 23:09:41
Ruben
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Posts: 470
Location: San Francisco, California
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I did hook to my pre/pro the airport express using the digital out. The reason I mention no loss of quality is because I can play a cd or and AAC in the laptop and the airport feeds that signal to the pre/pro.


Ruben


Ruben

San Francisco, California

 

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