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Digital Audio Receiver - Enter The New Age

Digital audio receivers are a fabulous piece of equipments for any audio enthusiast, fan of music or gadget fanatic. Move that music sitting on your computer into the rest of your home.

You don't want to be tied down to your pc just so you can listen to your favourite music. Also, those PC speakers don't really do it justice if you have a hi-fi setup in your home. A digital audio receiver is an ideal solution for getting that music collection off your PC into the household via a quality piece of audio equipment.

Whether the music is downloaded, ripped from CDs or even created by you, if you're one of the growing number of bedroom musicians that have sprung up since PCs became powerful enough and cheap enough for us all to make music with them, a digital audio receiver brings it to the living room. Now there really is no need for that CD collection that sits gathering dust in the age of music over the Internet.

The digital audio receiver does its magic by being connected to your home network. Different models offer different methods of connection, but they're all essentially the same. Some connect to your wi-fi hub, others are physically connected with network cable, some are even connected to the phone socket, for those of you with a home PNA network (Home Phoneline Networking Alliance).

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.

A huge benefit of using a digital audio receiver is the ability to save your entire collection at any one time. You can literally get thousands of tracks onto a single DVD disc and a hard drive will allow you to store even more.

By: Richard Jones

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