On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:23 AM, B. Kuestner wrote: > I read about Airport Express here which uses (sorry to break the > bad news) sub-par audio circuitry. Now if the Airport Express is > good enough for you, then most likely AAC or MP3 (VBR) both at 160 > kbit/s and encoded at "highest quality" should be more than plenty. And just to toss in what's really an irrelevant point, if you are using Airport Express to stream music, it gets transcoded to ALF prior to sending anyway. So using ALF may save a few CPU cycles when it comes time to stream the music. -Mike