I need a way to get my mp3's to play through my stereo

bryanr72

Someone told me of a wireless system where I can hook it up to my Line Out on my sound card and send my mp3 playlist to my home stereo. Anyone heard of this? If not, I'm sure I could just run a line out of my sound card into my receiver...however, my receiver is on the other side of the house. Do I need to put anything in between the sound card and the receiver? Does the signal deteriorate over long distances? Help.

brettw22

I was just looking at something like this yesterday actually. I was in Best Buy picking up a few DVD's and wandered over to the computer section.

Linksys has a system that does exactly what you're wanting.......for $200 + the cost of the card that you need to put into your tower or PCMCIA card if it's a laptop (if youre computer doesn't have the Wireless-B 802.11b technnology built in). Personally, I'm not a Linksys fan, but i haven't really looked into it anywhere else to see what else is out there.

The signal is going to deteriorate over distance, especially if the signal is going to have to try to get through walls (Linksys' site indicates that the 802.11b has a range of 100-150ft, depending on construction etc.). I think that the only way I'd ever consider something like that is if the computer is either in the same room or just one away, but then again, I just bought a 20' cable for $30 that's going to do the same thing.

Wireless at this point is too new for me to want to spend $200 to get sound from my computer to my stereo.

Here's a link that takes you to Linksys' site and will show you the difference between the 3 different wireless frequencies. Click HERE. It appears that the 802.11g is the system that will be more widespread and have almost 5x the capabilities of receiving the information from your computer, in comparison to the 802.11b.

Good luck......

bryanr72

Is there anything I can put inline to keep the signal loss at a minimum? ...booster, amp, anything?

brettw22

Looks like you can get a booster for anywhere from $100-200 depending on where you buy from, be it retail or somewhere like Ebay.

Shizelbs

Check out Turtle Beach's Audiotron, Slimp3, or the Cd30 C300. They hook up to your ethernet at home and stream your MP3 files from your computer to your stereo.

avelanchefan

Here is a much cheaper way of doing it.... I checked it out at CC and it looks very promising. CNET gave it a good review also. For 99 bucks it would be cheaper than the Linksys way. And it also runs through your usb port so no "extra" wireless components.

http://www.circuitcity.com/detail.jsp?c=1&b=g&qp=0&bookmark=bookmark_0&oid=72220&catoid=-8748

Shizelbs

For $99 it is the cheapest way I have seen to date.

HBombToo

I bought a Leap Frog about 2 years ago for 100 bucks. It does Vidio and audio left/right and it works great. You can even pick them up at the Shack for right around 100.00.

As far as the Other side of the house is concerned it will entirely depend on the size of your house and the materials used in construction. If your on the same floor there should be no problem. If your trying to cross floors you may have an issue.

HBomb