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Send music to AirPort Express from wired computers
I am the original poster and have found out some additional information.
Send music to AirPort Express from wired computers
Airtunes is best used with a Stereo with its own D>A convertor and an optical digital input. Data is compressed using ALAC when sent to the Airport Express, and if you are using an optical cable is sent unaltered to your stereo for decoding. Therefore, if you are playing a CD or an ALAC file to being with, your stereo (which almost certainly WILL have a better D>A than the $129 multi-purpose device called the Airport Express) will do what it was designed to do, convert the digital audio to analog for playback. I do not mean to knock the Airport Express, I love mine, but given all it does, I do not expect much for the probably <$5 circuitry to decode the digital data to analog. If you can, use the digital output. In those situations, I do not believe you have the option to control the audio volume for Airtunes. Either way, you would not want to since that would modify your source audio. |
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