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Digital audio receivers are a great new piece of kit for any audiophile, music lover or technology addict. The idea is simple: get all of that audio sitting on your PC into the rest of the house. Who wants to sit at a computer just to listen to music? And why use the little speakers that came with your PC when you have a perfectly good hi-fi, a device made for listening to music properly, sitting in the corner? A digital audio receiver solves these problems by allowing the library of music you have collected to become available from your hi-fi stack. 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. A digital audio receiver allows you to make use of a number of different options to hook itself up to your audio setup at home. One popular way is via a wi-fi hub or a direct physical connection. 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. Apart from the obvious benefit of having all of your music available from your hi-fi, the one piece of equipment made for listening to music properly in your home, there are other side-benefits. You can see the details of what you're listening to, such as track name, artist, album title. All of your music is centralized and on the same medium, so no more swapping CDs or being forced to listen to a whole album because you don't want to go in and change the record. 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.
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