Wi-Fi Fidelity?

Sometimes its important to just look past the technical mumbo jumbo and trust your own ears. If it sounds good, it sounds good. My wireless squeezebox, for example, provides excellent sound. It seems that sometimes we let technical papers or opinions of others convince us that what we hear in our own systems can't really be as good as we think it is.

"..and trust your own ears. If it sounds good, it sounds good."

Amen.

There is no loss of fidelity sending signal over wireless. The only potential issue is whether the connection operates fast enough to get the bits to the destination fast enough to be available when needed. If it doesn't, you will get dropouts.

Ethernet is the best transport medium, either WiFi or wired, for audio data.

This is a system-thing, not a device or protocol thing. Some systems may be sensitive to RFI, but for other reasons. In particular, ground-loops provide very nice loop antennas to pick up RFI. HF currents in these ground loops can be audible. Get rid of the ground-loop antenna and you will likely have no noise from RFI. To assume that RF affects all audio systems is erroneous.

My system has no ground-loops, so RFI has absolutely no effect, and my personal system is one of the most resolving systems on the planet.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio