ianandyr:
fatboyslimfast:JohnDuncan:waynefarnworth:I would buy a pair of Netgear Powerline adapters and disable the wireless.Sorry, but I'd absolutely not do that - ethernet over the mains is total hifi anathema. Wireless or wired is the way to go IMO.The question of whether to go Squeezebox or AE or Apple TV is another matter......Absolutely. Homeplug puts so much rubbish onto your mains supply, it kills the sound. For true sound quality, wired is the way to go, but wireless isn't that far behind...
I'd be very grateful if someone could explain to me why this is so ? As we're talking about a signal that's in the digital domain passing across a multi-layered networking protocol with numerous error-correction steps including discarding and re-transmitting all damaged packets I simply don't see how there can be any difference between wired, wireless or ethernet through the mains.
yeah I disagree on the wired/wireless debate, just because of the way it works (though it's slower, generalising), but the issue with ethernet over mains is that it affects the *other* audio components in the chain (like the amplifier, for example), thus degrading the signal.
And before anybody tells me it doesn't - yes it does.