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Sound Card for old blueberry G3
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Weezer
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Apr 15, 2007, 10:28 PM
 
Hey guys,

I have an old blueberry G3 tower that I think I'm going to turn into a music server. I would like to hook the G3 up to my receiever, install remote desktop on the mac, and then I could wirelessly control my music from my laptop My question is, what sound card would you recommend to get the job done? I just want to output to my receiver, preferably optical coax. Can I buy any sound card from newegg or does it have to support macs?

Edit: I also have a digidesign M-Box, that has optical coax out on it. Could I hook that up via usb and use that?

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Apr 15, 2007, 11:15 PM
 
Wouldn't it be cheaper if you get an AirPort Express base station? If you want, you can still store the music on your G3 and share the library via iTunes … 
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Apr 16, 2007, 10:44 AM
 
If you get a soundcard, it has to be a Mac compatible soundcard. M-audio has the Revolution 5.1 and 7.1 PCI cards. There are also USB options and the Griffin Firewave.

You can hook up the audio out (headphone) port to a stereo receiver using a stereo mini-plug to RCA jack adapter from radio shack. It's quick and fast.

An Airport Express would be the other way to go.
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