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Wireless Streaming Speakers ~!~ - haikuman - 09-05-2011 Tested and Rated By Terrence Russell, Wired.com The promise is that listening to music will get easier. Hit Play on your wireless device and the audio comes out of your speakers — no cables or docks. Yeah, right. As is often the case, the simple solution has only added to the complexity, as tech behemoths and bit players square off in yet another format war. What wireless speaker you choose can depend on your music files. At its most basic, the conflict breaks down into two camps: uncompressed and compressed — the former ostensibly delivering uncorrupted streams of music, the latter downsizing files to make them easier to move around. Unfortunately, the definitions get terribly muddled. Terms like lossless, which would suggest raw audio, are often applied to formats that do indeed compress their streams (just not all that much). And some speakers built for uncompressed protocols like DLNA and Kleer have hardware limitations that don't deliver on the full potential of those formats; it's sort of like pulling onto the Autobahn on a moped. In the end, it's a three-part equation: Source file + streaming protocol + receiving unit = what you hear. We can't do anything about what's in your music library, but we can help you with the rest. Re: Wireless Streaming Speakers ~!~ - Grateful11 - 09-05-2011 Did he make any recommendations on models? Re: Wireless Streaming Speakers ~!~ - miK. - 09-05-2011 Looks like the story is here... http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/08/reviews_wirelessstreaming/?pid=1060&viewall=true Re: Wireless Streaming Speakers ~!~ - deckeda - 09-05-2011 Yikes. That article has muddled descriptions of lossy and lossless, and wrong conclusions of what's needed to transmit the types of signals mentioned. What a mess. |