Roku SoundBridge vs. SqueezBox3

Artizen65, I think ethernet is definitely the way to go. I think both the Soundbridge and the SqueezBox would be great products if they excluded WI-FI. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the WI-FI is always transmitting regardless of which connection you use. My frustration lies in the fact that these companies are trying to appeal to the mass market, rather than making a top notch product. BTW Does anyone know where to find "Audiophile" grade tinfoil hats?

You an take the wifi card out of the Roku and just run wired ethernet.

just to be clear, if all of your music is stored on an NAS you do not need the pc to be on. trust me, i have the sonos and i do not have my pc on...

Ok,

I finally downloaded Itunes at Roku's suggestion. It does everything right. I like the way Itunes saves the song lists vs other players. I can now browse and search .wav files by artist, album, song and playlist on the soundbridge.

Itunes will copy to .wav files with error corection and play them through the soundbridge.

As far as quality, I can't tell the difference between my transport and what is streamed from the computer as long as I am going through my DAC. Analog is another story :(.

The only issue I am having now is that some times Itunes and the SoundBridge loose the network connection. I am still troubleshooting this issue.

Last of all but not least I did purchase the SoundBridge as I am very satisfied with the sound quality.

Artizen565,
I too had a few problems with my Soundbridge loosing my network connection. Try deleting iTunes and Roku in your "exceptions" in your firewall settings in Windows and then add them back in again.

I got rid of my SACD player as I was using an external DAC anyway for redbook. A digital music server is the way to go. I currently have a 400GB and it's almost full. I'm ripping my music as AIFF files. File sharing is almost as big a benefit as sound improvement over my previous digital setup. Hey, I now have a volume control!