You do no airplay uses wifi and not Bluetooth and uses lossless ALAC.
Yes. That's why I use it.
You do no airplay uses wifi and not Bluetooth and uses lossless ALAC.
Why don't you use one of the software available for free to convert your FLAC to ALAC (zero quality degradation - lossless to lossless). Then you can airplay them.
I'm sorry, but streaming lossless FLAC files over lossy bluetooth is the definition of fail.
No, that sounds like a pain in the ass. Why would I want to convert close to 900 gigs of music ?
900 gig? Even considering you've got it all encoded at lossless compression ratios, that's like...all the music, isn't it?
It sure as hell makes my 12GB of music seem puny.
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but 12 gigs in lossless is like 12- 20 records .
In Lossless , yeah , that would be puny
I really hate saw the old Kuro went off the grid, and now Panasonic is raising the white flag too. I wish all HDTV is plasma
No thanks.
Some of use have eyes that are sensitive to Plasma refresh rates inducing flicker.
Plasma is old tech and has been superseded by more energy efficient and quite frankly better tech.
Better tech than plasma? Like LCD? Barely
Like I said, LCD or LED backlit tv might have to be overcomplicated and overpriced to compensate lots of things a cheap, simple, low end Plasma could do out of the box.
LCD needs more costly IPS panel to have a better viewing angle and contrast ratio
LCD needs super sophisticated auto dimming backlit array to barely compete with plasma black level an uniformity
LCD needs soap opera effect a.k.a motion smoothing to overcome motion blur
After all that advanced technology, LCD is still much more suscpetible to dead pixels more than plasma
One technology which truly compete with plasma and make it obsolete is OLED. Might need several years before mere mortals could afford one.
Can someone tell me if this needs to be on a wifi network to work with an iPhone? Want something for a cabin where there is no router.
Thanks
Airplay requires wifi.
Great news. Much cheaper than SONOS. Looks sleek and easy to use.
Will purchase in the future.
We were really on the fence which way to go and we went with SONOS
for a number of reasons, including flexibility of format and ease of use.
And yes - like many before us, we got hooked on the whole Sonos system
and now have a playbar as well as the sub. Couldn't be happier with our choice.
I don't know if you've made your purchase yet, but if you haven't, this is a really good moment to take advantage of a sale Sonos has going - when you buy a Sonos Play 3, they will give you a free Sonos Bridge plus 90 days free access to Rhapsody.
I came across this web site that has a free 2 day fedex shipping coupon for Sonos when we were shopping. They also have info on there about how to get the free sonos bridge. I think that sale ends really soon, so if you are reading this and have been considering buying a play 3 or need a bridge - this is a good moment to get it.
Personally - I don't think you'll be disappointed with any sonos product.
http://www.squidoo.com/sonos-playbar-soundbar-and-wireless-speakers-for-streaming-music
I'm sure I wouldn't, but the price is the biggest point.
if everything else is equal like cheapo speakers, or earbuds, you wont tell a difference. But with quality speakers you will.I've been told by a couple of AirPlay speaker owners (self-proclaimed audiophiles ) that AirPlay has a technical advantage over Bluetooth.... something to do with Bluetooth being "lossy" (loses original data when packaged for transmission) while AirPlay is not. This reminds of the ancient format debates between JPEG (lossy image compression) versus something like PICT or PNG.
Anyone with more technical knowledge care to elaborate?
With myself being quite satisfied with the sound quality of 256kb AAC, I'm no audiophile. So in listening to the same track, will I be able to tell the difference if I listen to an AirPlay output versus a Bluetooth one? (assuming that everything else is equal like the quality and build of the speakers)
if everything else is equal like cheapo speakers, or earbuds, you wont tell a difference. But with quality speakers you will.
Airplay transmits with AAC lossless. So your AAC/MP3 files etc while lossy dont go through a lossy transcode for transmission and decode.
Bluetooth can support direct AAC and can be similar quality, but in reality very few bluetooth receivers support and negotiate for receiving AAC.
Instead they fall back to their basic standards compliant SBC codec which is very poor. So you convert your lossy AAC into another lossy crappier SBC for transmission to be decoded by the receiver. You'll lose a lot of dynamic range.
So there's a quick way for it to start up, but still not a way to keep it on all the time?