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Alternatives

The cheapest we know of is from

Apple. The Airport Express looks like

the little power supply that comes with

Apple laptops, and contains a Wi-Fi

transmitter that will hook up to your

local network, or directly to your com-

puter if it has a Wi-Fi card.

Since it has no display, you conﬁgure

it from your computer. You can then get

analog audio from it via a mini phone

plug, or you can get digital audio into

your own DAC with an optical cable. It

plays what the computer sends it, since

it has no controls of its own. The box

has an Ethernet connector for printer

sharing or setting up an ad hoc network.

It costs US$129, or C$159.

The Roku Soundbridge M1000 has a

feature set closer to that of the Squeeze-

box, and costs $100 less. The M500, with

a smaller, nearly unreadable, display is

even cheaper. It won’t run Apple Lossless

tracks unless (ironically) you download

Slim Devices’ software. The picture

shows an “M2000,” which appears to be

vaporware.

We attempted to get a Soundbridge

for review, without success. Roku’s listed

Canadian distributor shows startlingly

high prices, and e-mails to its site bounce

back. Roku told us it would “look into

it,” but that was nearly a year ago. In the

meantime we have had a reader report

that the Soundbridge’s optical output

is poor. Since Roku will not or cannot

supply a unit for review, we pretty much

have to leave it at that.

Conclusions

We have no plans to sell our rather

expensive CD (and SACD) players and

shove everything into the computer. Nor

will we stop reviewing (and recommend-

ing) standalone music sources, both digi-

tal and analog. It is, however, possible to

get real high ﬁdelity from a computer if

you know what you’re doing.

And it’s probable that better devices

yet (the Squeezebox 4, perhaps) will yield

even higher ﬁdelity. It’s important to

understand that the digital signal from

your original CD remains digital right

through the entire process, and ﬁnally

enters the analog domain only at your

stereo system. The acrobatics that your

computer, your Wi-Fi router and the

Squeezebox put it through are as noth-

ing compared to the manipulations that

go into the actual manufacture of the

Compact Disc itself. Even so, there’s a

better than even chance that the disc was

mastered on a computer not unlike the

one you own.

We’ve been told, by the way, that we

can obtain much better sound from the

Squeezebox by replacing the tiny power

brick that comes with it. Expect us to

take the hint.

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