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squeezebox and home network

From reading about Squeezebox, it seems such a good idea. However, my computer knowledge is very limited and I hope fellow Audiogoners can help me out a bit.

My home is a recently constructed and it is wired with Cat-5 cable and I can see wall plugs in every room where I can plug in a network cable. The sales manager told me that I can set up a network down in the basement where the cable and telephone wire come in.

If that’s the case, ie, I set up the network and any computer plugged into the wall can join the network, then I can just use Squeezebox Ethernet connection rather than the wireless connection, right? Would that improve sound quality somewhat?

Also, if I rip cd and store them on a hard drive, using EAC, no compression, what’s the size of the hard drive I need to have , say per 200 cd.

Thanks
ddl24

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lkdog
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I just got a modified SB3 from Redwine Audio.
Setup with the wireless option was pretty straightforward.
There should be no issue with using wifi unless you have some inteference in your setup.
The internet radio is a nice feature with Slimserver.
I used Itunes to rip audio to my hard drive. (I use EAC when making CD copies).
Right now trying AAC @ 192 kbps as that is what I used for transfer to my IPOD.
May re rip using WAV or FLAC for use with the SB3 as sound qaulity would be better.

Too early to assess sound quality of SB3. Still breaking in.
lkdog
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Drubin-

Is this online somewhere? I went to Stereophile site and they did not have it up.

Thanks.
lkdog
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Drubin-

Thanks for your gracious offer.
Email sent.

I have a new SB3 modded with battery power by Redwine Audio and am interested to here what JA has to say about the stock version.
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