Wireless Audio

mylesm

Looking for some advise I have a NAS drive connected to a Wireless router and I listen to the music off the nas in bedroom on a cheapo wireless internet radio

I am now building an extension and would like to have something in the extension to connect wireless to my music collection on my NAS Drive I would like something of fairly good quality can anyone please point me towards a device for me

thx

mylesm

cnocbui

If you use iTunes and get an Apple Airport Express (AE) wifi hub, you can use the combo to stream music to the AE using Apple Lossless Audio Compression ALAC. Apple refers to the system as Airtunes.

The AE has a 3.5mm stereo socket allowing you to connect it's audio output to a wide range of devices.

You could hook up a Klipsch iGroove for little cost but good sound quality, or you could get a B&W Zeplin for more money and a bit better sound quality or you could get an amp and high quaity speakers.

Since the system streams losslessly, the music quality would be determined by the source files and the reproduction system attached to the AE.

MediaTank

If you have a few bob (it ain't that cheap) check out the SONOS system.

www.sonos.com

Wireless playback and expandable. There's also a controller app for the iPhone/iTouch.

Ant

MediaTank wrote: »

If you have a few bob (it ain't that cheap) check out the SONOS system.

www.sonos.com

Wireless playback and expandable. There's also a controller app for the iPhone/iTouch.

Same goes for the Squeezebox of which I'm a great fan. High quality sound, works with wired and wireless networks, and supports many different audio formats/codecs. There's a number of different products available and I find that Peats of Parnell St. have good prices for the range. You might want to check through the forums to see if your NAS is capable of running the server software (I use an old PIII computer).

chiefwiggum

i have the sonos....top class...have the iphone app for it too...its so easy to use..i have 4 zones...couldnt say a bad word about it

mylesm

thanks for replies looks like SONOS or Squeezebox

MediaTank

Advantage of the SONOS over Squeezebox is that you don't need to install any software on the NAS (or anywhere in fact). It accesses your NAS drive over the network and playes back whatever you want. Every audio CODEC is supported too (other than DRM).

MT

higster

Same story here with the sonos...pure class (but is expensive) & don't forget it plays internet radio statoins...

PS Glad to see you got yours going chiefwiggum

ipodrocker

chiefwiggum wrote: »

i have the sonos....top class...have the iphone app for it too...its so easy to use..i have 4 zones...couldnt say a bad word about it

have you a nas as your setup? if so what make?

MediaTank

ipodrocker wrote: »

have you a nas as your setup? if so what make?

I have a NAS, in fact I have 3 - a QNAP, a Buffalo and a Popcorn Hour. There is a list of unsupported NAS on the SONOS website. As long as the NAS supports SMB/SAMBA it will work with SONOS.

ipodrocker

if you were to recommend one NAS , which would you go for?

MediaTank

ipodrocker wrote: »

if you were to recommend one NAS , which would you go for?

QNAP or Thecus.

chiefwiggum

ipodrocker wrote: »

have you a nas as your setup? if so what make?

i dont have a nas ....i just run it off an old lap top with a 1 tb hard drive connected to it

higster

NAS = Western Digital My Book 1TB World Edition...~€130 on Amazon. Most seem to like the Buffolo...All depends on whats your budget. Good info can be found on Sonos forums http://forums.sonos.com/index.php
e.g.
http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=16038&highlight=nas

MediaTank

If you are going to bother with a NAS then get one that supports at least RAID 1 (mirroring), that way you won't lose your tunes when you have that inevitable disk crash.

axton1

mylesm wrote: »

Looking for some advise I have a NAS drive connected to a Wireless router and I listen to the music off the nas in bedroom on a cheapo wireless internet radio

I am now building an extension and would like to have something in the extension to connect wireless to my music collection on my NAS Drive I would like something of fairly good quality can anyone please point me towards a device for me

thx

mylesm

Hi mylesm,

Items worth checking if you want best quality sound (budget depending )
Sonneteer Morpheus system or Bard wireless transmission amps / receivers.

or if you want to run a multiroom / location system using a laptop take a look at Audio Pro wireless active speakers LV2 MODEL they are supplied with a transmitter ( usb or 3.5mm jack ) and you can play 3 different playlists to three locations at the same time in full dsp transmission ( no d to a conversion !) and its plug and play . €799.00 per pr

good hunting !

MediaTank

axton1 wrote: »

Hi mylesm,

Items worth checking if you want best quality sound (budget depending )
Sonneteer Morpheus system or Bard wireless transmission amps / receivers.

or if you want to run a multiroom / location system using a laptop take a look at Audio Pro wireless active speakers LV2 MODEL they are supplied with a transmitter ( usb or 3.5mm jack ) and you can play 3 different playlists to three locations at the same time in full dsp transmission ( no d to a conversion !) and its plug and play . €799.00 per pr

good hunting !

That's even more expensive than SONOS!