Extending Our Whole House Audio To The Back Yard
Like many people we have a wooden deck at the back of the house into the back yard. It has long been my intent to extend our ability to play music to the back yard, but it has only recently com to pass. It’s essentially the next step in my long standing plans to deploy Whole House Audio, a project that recalls some of the earliest posts to this site.
As I described so long ago, we love our Logitech Squeezeboxes. They still form the basis of how we play music around here, even though Logitech has abandoned the product line. In fact, when my one Squeezebox Touch died I was inspired to purchase another Squeezebox 3 on E-bay, just to have a spare.
When experimenting with a new audio path I like to take measurements. Long ago, in an age of techno-pre-history known as the late 1980’s, I craved what were then an emerging class of computerized test instruments, like the 
so I decided to record the output of the sweep generator in Audio Tool to the H2. Then I tool the resulting WAV file into 
Inspired by 
Opus promises to be a great tool for online audio. In technology, as in music, not all opus are implemented equally. Allow me to explain.
This past week I bought our fifth 
streaming music player. It’s 
Open source guru Randal Schwartz of