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In the Forum: Off Air Audio
In the Thread: What to do in office?

Post Subject: Fantastic playlistPosted by jessie.dazzle on: 1/22/2009

I discovered a station I really like, with a good percentage of "content-loaded" music, and in any case, a playlist FULL of surprises :

http://www.realradios.com/north-america/united-states/virginia/whro/connoisseur-classics

It is of course only a 128kbps stream. I use it more as a source of discovering "new" music, which I can then buy in high resolution.

Rony,

Very late response here, but if you have not already figured it out, here are two ways you may wish to consider:

The easy, but lower quality way involves using the normal audio-out jack on your computer (the signal will go through your computer's sound card), feeding that line directly into your preamp (via miniplug to RCA adaptor cable).

A higher quality solution would be to use an external USB DAC (in which case the computer's sound card is not used). However, remember, we are talking about relatively low resolution feeds, so the results may not be spactacular. The investment in such a DAC can nevertheless be justified because with this solution you can also use your computer's hard drive (or an external hard drive) to play back full resolution files. Using this method, I have found the results to be nothing short of excellent (believe it or not, better than when using my CD player).

I have never tried listening to internet radio other than via my computer speakers (until now I did not have internet at the house... Only took a year!), but I now intend to do just that.

jd*

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