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Wi-fi sound system, help?

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woolymammoth
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I just got a new sound system in my room and i want to hook my computer up to it. From what i've heard i can get the best quality by hooking my reciever up to my wi-fi system. Has anyone done this or anything like this? Any tips or other ways to channel my computer's sound through the speakers. I have a sony str dh-100 reciever with plenty of free channels. I don't really know how to go about what i want to do so any advice would be greatly appreciated
Apr 29 2009 12:19AM
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spqr
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ummm? you don't hook your sound system into Wi-Fi. You hook it into the sound card on your computer (most likely the round green plug). WiFi is for wireless networking, not so much a DAC for sound.
Apr 29 2009 12:24AM
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woolymammoth
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Elaborate?
How do i hook it up to the sound card, because i don't have a "round green plug" and i don't want to do it through the headphone jack because the quality will be real shitty

Also, i think i could send the sound information across my network just like any other information is transmitted, but maybe i'm wrong. Any other ways of wirelessly connecting the two?
Apr 29 2009 12:28AM
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spqr
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Laptop or Desktop computer?

Have you tried hooking it into your headphone plug? You should get decent quality out of that. I am guessing you are using a 3.5mm headphone to RCA (white and red cable) converter to hook into the receiver.

As to the sound over WIFI, unless you have a specialized peice of hardware that streams the audio from your computer over the wireless network, then you aren't going to be able to do anything over WIFI. Further, the quality of this would be no better than straight from your computer.
Apr 29 2009 1:00AM
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user098123
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Radioshack, probably $5.
Apr 29 2009 1:20AM
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Dan.
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best way to do it is to get an audio interface with xlr outs and hook that to your computer then get xlrs going from the interface to your reciever.
Apr 29 2009 1:51AM
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spqr
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Checking the specs, there is no low-Z input, so there is no point to bother with XLR cables or waste money on a sound card that has XLR outputs.

Go with the above pictured RCA adapter.
Apr 29 2009 11:47AM
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