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Digital Audio Receiver - Enter The New Age
By: Richard Jones
If you're looking for a brilliant piece of kit for an audio fan or modern technology enthusiast, then look no further than digital audio receivers.
Who wants to sit at a computer just to listen to music? And why use the little speakers that came with your PC when you have a perfectly good hi-fi, a device made for listening to music properly, sitting in the corner? A digital audio receiver solves these problems by allowing the library of music you have collected to become available from your hi-fi stack.
It doesn't matter how you got that music onto your home computer, the fact is that downloading music onto them has become very popular in recent times. Digital audio receivers allow you to transfer that beloved collection of music into the home where it can be enjoyed by everyone.
Digital audio receivers present a number of methods and ways you can connect via your home audio network, but ultimately they all do the same thing. So whether it's a physical connection such as a cable or a hub, you can soon get up and running.
A numebr of digital audio receivers come packaged with software that you need to setup on your home computer. This software basically allows you to choose music from your collection as it knows where each file is located on your machine.
When a track is selected, the server software loads the audio and then "streams" it to the digital audio receiver. Streaming is just a technical term for passing the data to the digital audio receiver fast enough to allowing the digital audio receiver to begin playing instantly, without running out of music. This means that although the audio has to be moved across the network, it is surprisingly fast. No need to wait for the entire song to be downloaded before playing.
If you've ever got tired of constantly changing over CD's on your normal audio setup, then this solution is perfect as everything is contained in one place. There are other benefits too, such as being able to see at a glance which music track is playing as well as who it is by.
It's also a good move for backups. Because all of your music is digital and stored in a single place, you can make backups at any time. MP3 encoding means you can fit hundreds of tracks on a single CD, thousands onto a DVD and if you have a really really big collection, a backup hard drive will set you back around 50 dollars or less if you shop around.
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