I get what you're saying Herb but I still want to see what I can do. I guess I'm the only one on the forum who understands what I'm looking for. I'll keep posting tidbits of info as I find it so here's one:

Wifi and bluetooth. Bluetooth compresses the signal so for high end audio, that's no good but wifi has much greater bandwidth and uses lossless audio plus has much greater range. From what I've read it can still be tricky to set up (what isn't in this realm?). It looks like wifi is the ticket so far. These new receivers I'm looking at all have both and of course I already have a router with wifi. That means all my stuff in the bedroom can be hidden under the desk, go into the PC and the audio comes out via wifi to the new receiver in the living room. Slick. Assuming I'm not driven crazy by interference from a neighbors network but from what I'm reading that's not a problem.

That leaves the question of how do I connect a keyboard for when I want to record something live using its internal sounds and not simply midi over USB? Right now I have my Kurzweil sitting on the desk for that purpose but I want to clear everything off and use the desk as a home office area, not a home studio. I could just KISS it and clear off the desk as needed, put the keyboard back and record like I do now but I would rather do that in the living room too. But then I have to route the audio outs from the KB back to the bedroom. I've found possible bluetooth adapters for that but not wifi. Wifi adapters are stictly USB into a computer thing apparently.

That's it for now, Chapter 3 coming soon looking at CAT 5 audio extenders...

Bob

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