Streaming audio to a "speaker server" in linux

Question

Is there a way to stream all audio from a laptop (which has low quality speakers) to a desktop with much better speakers in linux (on both computers)? I think that this would have to be a kernel driver, since it would have to fit under the alsa system to make it application transparent.

Thanks, Andrew

Answer 1

Pulseaudio has network support, and it is the only way I know of to do low-level sound device streaming.