DESPITE NUMEROUS TECHNOLOGICAL develop ments in recent years, sound tends to be overlooked by PC makers. And high-quality audio is nearly always the first thing to be sacrificed when a company puts together a budget desktop pc. So it's good to know that the tiniest of tweaks can make a huge difference to your home audio setup especially if you have surround sound. It's easy to achieve that sweet spot where Beethoven is divine and Bioshock can almost literally blow you away.

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But why stop at optimizing the audio potential of just one PC? Connecting all your computers and audio devices on a wireless network does away with the hassle of transferring CDs between machines and redownloading files. Streaming media across a network used to require expensive and complex hardware. Not so today. WMP 11.0 and iTunes have facilities for sharing music libraries. We'll show you how to use these services to set up a free media streaming network.