Using airport with a regular stereo?

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Phil Stripling - 13 Feb 2005 20:20 GMT

Are there devices that would let me transmit music from my regular (and
old) stereo to wireless speakers? (I bought the tuner/preamp and amp in
'97, so there are no digital ouputs -- just RCA plugs between them and
speaker connections on the amp.)

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Neill Massello - 13 Feb 2005 23:31 GMT

> Are there devices that would let me transmit music from my regular (and
> old) stereo to wireless speakers? (I bought the tuner/preamp and amp in
> '97, so there are no digital ouputs -- just RCA plugs between them and
> speaker connections on the amp.)

If you mean streaming audio to an AirPort Express base station, that can
only be done from iTunes running on a Mac or PC. There are many
non-Apple products for distributing analog audio wirelessly, such as
D-Link's Stereo Adapter Kit <http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=290>.

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Phil Stripling - 14 Feb 2005 03:07 GMT

> If you mean streaming audio to an AirPort Express base station, that can
> only be done from iTunes running on a Mac or PC. There are many

Okay, we have a Mac and Louise is an iTunes user. So, uh, how does it get
to speakers?

> non-Apple products for distributing analog audio wirelessly, such as
> D-Link's Stereo Adapter Kit <http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=290>.

Looks like an interesting product that means we could play from our
stereo. If I understand your first comment, using airport means we'd have
to stream from the computer. I'd rather have the stereo with it's big
speakers going, and the wireless remote speakers in another room.

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Neill Massello - 14 Feb 2005 08:52 GMT

> Okay, we have a Mac and Louise is an iTunes user. So, uh, how does it get
> to speakers?

You get an AirPort Express base station, connect its audio output to the
audio amplifier's (or powered speakers') line input, join the base
station's wireless network (or run an Ethernet cable to it), and launch
a recent version of iTunes.

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Using airport with a regular stereo?