Fishpatrol--I've never seen data rates given as megabytes per second; I did mean megabits per second, but I'm guessing that if you are reading some log, its probably also megabits per second.
Gunbei--I would love it if keeping my ethernet cables straight was as simple as color coding... I've got normal ethernet cables with gray jackets and crossover cables with blue. No standard there, unfortunately.
802.11b = MAX of 10 mbps. 802.11a/g = MAX of 54 mbps. The maximums are pretty difficult to obtain in real life. Airport is 11b, AE is 11g. I recall that the Audiotron community indicated there were problems (stutters, etc) with 11b when trying to pass wavs wirelessly and would expect the same result with an Airport and iTunes. Oddly, normal ethernet is 10 mbps and passes wav fine...
Golix, the Apogee may be a fine piece of gear, but its not a panacea. I've got a dCS Purcell and Delius in the same room as my miniMac. Spending $1K on an Apogee DAC is a really dumb idea in that context when I can spend $150, get a Waveterminal U24, and pass bit perfect data to my dCS stack. Please don't take this the wrong way, b/c you may be the exception, but Apogee people are like fundamentalists--they love their gear to the extent that there is now only one true God.
I also highly recommend use of RAID, although I may have gone overboard--I'm using a 1TB HW RAID 5 NAS, a Dell Powervault 745N, inside a vCab acoustic rack. Not a cheap solution. Just backing up isn't enough. I've had at least four major disk crashes with large capacity internal and external drives in the last two years. The last one meant reripping 300+ CDs. I feel much more comfortable with RAID 5 and a backup.
As far as anecotal stories re: compression formats, there was a guy on head-fi that was trying to compare EAC ripped wavs and Apple lossless outta iTunes. He claimed he uncompressed the Apple files into wavs and found that they matched, bit for bit, with the EAC ripped version. He conclusion was therefore that iTunes is a decent ripper. My conclusion would be that, if that is the case, its hard for me to believe that Apple lossless sounds worse than a wav, since it is a wav. Although, I have not compared and stranger things have happened.
Gunbei--I would love it if keeping my ethernet cables straight was as simple as color coding... I've got normal ethernet cables with gray jackets and crossover cables with blue. No standard there, unfortunately.
802.11b = MAX of 10 mbps. 802.11a/g = MAX of 54 mbps. The maximums are pretty difficult to obtain in real life. Airport is 11b, AE is 11g. I recall that the Audiotron community indicated there were problems (stutters, etc) with 11b when trying to pass wavs wirelessly and would expect the same result with an Airport and iTunes. Oddly, normal ethernet is 10 mbps and passes wav fine...
Golix, the Apogee may be a fine piece of gear, but its not a panacea. I've got a dCS Purcell and Delius in the same room as my miniMac. Spending $1K on an Apogee DAC is a really dumb idea in that context when I can spend $150, get a Waveterminal U24, and pass bit perfect data to my dCS stack. Please don't take this the wrong way, b/c you may be the exception, but Apogee people are like fundamentalists--they love their gear to the extent that there is now only one true God.
I also highly recommend use of RAID, although I may have gone overboard--I'm using a 1TB HW RAID 5 NAS, a Dell Powervault 745N, inside a vCab acoustic rack. Not a cheap solution. Just backing up isn't enough. I've had at least four major disk crashes with large capacity internal and external drives in the last two years. The last one meant reripping 300+ CDs. I feel much more comfortable with RAID 5 and a backup.
As far as anecotal stories re: compression formats, there was a guy on head-fi that was trying to compare EAC ripped wavs and Apple lossless outta iTunes. He claimed he uncompressed the Apple files into wavs and found that they matched, bit for bit, with the EAC ripped version. He conclusion was therefore that iTunes is a decent ripper. My conclusion would be that, if that is the case, its hard for me to believe that Apple lossless sounds worse than a wav, since it is a wav. Although, I have not compared and stranger things have happened.