best wireless distribution?

For the price range specified and to get your digital music to one location, I would recommend the Squeezebox. I personally have the Sonos because I wanted to have my music in multiple locations in my home. They both have digital outs so you can an external DAC. Keep in mind that accessing a large music library is difficult on the Squeeebox is difficult because of the small display. The Sonos has a great remote ocntrol with a large display that makes navigating my library very easy. Depending on how the music is encoded, an external DAC may not make any difference.

I have the Sonus and link it via Toslink to my DCC2. Very acceptable and far far better than using analogue out puts into a preamp...not even close.

thanks for the replies - any idea how much difference will there be w/ external dac vs sqeezebox for 128 kps vbr mp3's in some vr-1's? Thanks.

also, a simple question I can't find precisely answered in the reviews - can you stream music to this with a random laptop, as long as it has a wireless adaptor?

also this linksys seems to be a nice cheap options if you don't need an interface on the device

http://reviews.cnet.com/Linksys_WMB54G_Wireless_G_Music_Bridge/4505-3243_7-31660626.html?tag=txt

any one tried it here?

128kps sounds awful!!! you need to go way higher 320kps VBR or more.. preferrably FLAC (lossless)

I use my tabletpc to control my large collection on my squeezebox setup. You do have to get it modified for the ultimate in sound quality. (powersupply makes a huge difference in a high end system)