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Post Subject: Running Bose SoundDeck on-line.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/18/2014

Well, what I have learned after a few experiments and some education is that Bluetooth, regardless quality of implementation is garbage, FM transmission is fine but to do it at more or less acceptable level it will be costly. So, I decided to take advantage of a comfy Bose SoundDeck like input jack. I got 50' of cable, nope, not the PAD cable, and run SoundDeck from headphone exit of my preamp. You know, it was so much better than the SoundDeck running from garbage coming iPhone!

I think for now I will keep that line-driven SoundDeck as my outdoor speaker. The main question would be how good SoundDeck itself, without being degraded by ordinary horrible source. I am not ready at this point to answer this question but for sure I will have an opinion with time. Some things that SoundDeck does are impressive (I think the fine dynamics is largely driven by digital amps that the devise most likely used) and some sonic things are very miserable. Which came from the horror of digitally compressed front end I do not know. I do have feeling that SoundDeck does have some internal signal processing but I did not hear it too much driver my line level signal to say it with certainty.

I do not think that I will find it "good" but it will be at least convenient.

the Cat

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