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best wireless distribution?

I have a lot of tunes in my PC mainly for an IPOD but also for my working room listening....and then my high end 2 channel system in another room. The question is what is the best way to get the itunes library played on my main system wirelessly sound quality wise?

I've seen Sonus, Sonateer, Airport Express, Squeezebox etc etc discussed but never in comparison...anyone want to take a shot? And am I correct in assuming that I want digital outs to I can use my Meitner DAC?
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For the price range specified and to get your digital music to one location, I would recommend the Squeezebox. I personally have the Sonos because I wanted to have my music in multiple locations in my home. They both have digital outs so you can an external DAC. Keep in mind that accessing a large music library is difficult on the Squeeebox is difficult because of the small display. The Sonos has a great remote ocntrol with a large display that makes navigating my library very easy. Depending on how the music is encoded, an external DAC may not make any difference.
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John, I could not agree with you more regarding the Sonos. I have been a user for over a year and have no complaints.

Angaria, Cytocycle is right. However, you should do your own testing to see at what encoding settings you can no longer tell the difference between mp3 and cd. For me, this was 256 VBR. Though I can still a slight difference, it was very small. And yes, with any of the wireless systems you can stream music from any pc that is on the network. The advantage with the Sonos is that you can use a NAS and not have to have a pc on at all.
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