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My computer is upstairs, reciver and Axioms downstairs...Are you saying this thing basically plugs into the computer via usb and allows me to stream onto my Axiom setup? For only $100? That would be great!Am I following you correctly here? Thanks for your reply

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That is exactly what I'm saying. It also has 4 different frequencies it can use so if something interfers with one particular signal you still got 3 others to try.

It's a no brainer. Takes 10minutes to set up and poof, anything you can listen to on your computer is now available on your beautiful axiom set up. I really can't tell the difference between cd player and this set up except perhaps a need a few extra dbs for volume.

I got mine at QVC site for $79. With shipping it was $90 something. That low $39 price is at a few different sites and all back ordered. I checked on one of those sites again and it has been out of stock since I ordered mine in late December. I hope you get that price, but I have my doubts.

You'd be surprised at the quality differences between what most people encode their mp3's at vs. CD quality.

What bitrate do you encode your music at?

I have 6gig on my MP3 player so I can afford to covert CDs at 320 kbps. Most people use 128 I believe.

No expert on the subject though. I just used the highest available quality setting. Wether I'm getting that much better quality using the 320 Vs 128 I'm not qualified to say really.

<shrugs> sounds darn good to me.

Just having the ability to get almost any music to play on my system without buying it is a huge plus for me. For example in the "What are you listening to tonight" thread there was recent talk about Coldplay's live DVD Austrialia concert and the X & Y album.

I just opened rapsody, called up coldplay and was able to listen to both prior to possible purchase. While you might be able to argue the quality is not CD, the Lyra wireless set up allows me to decide about most (not all unfortunately) music purchases by listening on my system to an extremely close example of the CD/DVD.

In this way both Rhapsody and my Lyra wireless pay for themselves in the long run.

Sunday 7:45 pst just got an email from Buy.com They have received more Lyras in their warehouse.Selling for $34.99 US + shipping. Mine just shipped for 42.96 USD total(I'm in Seattle) I'll keep you posted after I receive it. kemrt23, I will not be able to thank you enough if this works as great as everyone says! Thanks a lot!

That is a truely amazing price for this thing.

Thank you thank you thank you!

I was on the Buy.com site this weekend, and thought about pulling the trigger, but held off because I was afraid it would be back-ordered forever.

I've now got one ordered (and confirmed)! So thanks for providing that update.

Rich

No problem...Kc23 gets all the credit...I am tracking it seems their warehouse is in Oklahoma I guess to seattle by UPS ground I will have it by Thursday afternoon Will keep you posted!

My Lyra wireless was delivered yesterday. I set it up when I got home and put on Pandora and sure enough the music came on my main system in the living room. It was no longer coming out of the speakers in the computer room. I guess you can only choose one source, the sound card or the Lyra wireless. After awhile I wanted to switch back to the computer room set up. I got the music to be sent to those speakers by changing back to the sound card in control panel (WinXP). Now I want to change back to the main system and it will not change. I have not installed the remote control software because I think it would be useless for my intended use.
Since this is a usb unit can't we just switch back in forth in the windows control panel or do we have to use the musicmatch software?
Also, if anyone is using the musicmatch in Win XP are you finding it very slow? It seems to slow my computer down to a crawl.
I should also state that the music in the musicmatch library plays out fine to the main system but the streaming internet plays through the computer speakers.
Any help would be appreciated
oz

This sounds great, but without a display, how do you know what you're playing? I guess that's why it costs a lot less than the Squeezebox or the Roku.

I don't use musicmatch so I can't help you with that. As I always do when I buy any hardware for my computer, first thing I did was go to the Lyra RCA site and downloaded all the latest software and installed it.

That might help a lot with any issues that come up.

PS I also found the remote unnecessary. Haven't used it myself.