Death In The Family, End Of Life For Squeezebox Boom

2014-09-20 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hes, it looks as though the day has come for me to sign the death certificate for my Logitech Squeezebox Boom Internet Radio/Music Player which has served me faithfully since march 2011, I think that's when I bought it. I set the machine up today to hear no sound though a source was playing.

Bose This And That

2014-09-20 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! I've been away from the list for some weeks so I don't know whether the Bose Soundlink III or Soundlink Mini devices have been mentioned here, I have both of these and will give a summary of each with notes where appropriate. The Soundlink Mini is a Bluetooth speaker about the size of a

RE: Bose This And That

2014-09-20 Thread Hamit Campos
Dain, if I may. I too have heard these. My Sister Johanna has the Soundlink 3 and has lent it to me a few times. It is epic! The Mini is too for what it is. One thing I will say is this. The 3 has better and more frequency response. Godzilla 1998 wistles when it roars, you hear this wistle from

Re: Bose This And That

2014-09-20 Thread Dane Trethowan
Thanks for that. The Soundlink Mini is indeed a personal listening system, I use it when I'm reclining on my lounge, sounds very nice sitting on the arm rest when I'm listening to music, talking books or whatever. Another question I'm asked is how would I rate the Soundlink III as compared to

RE: Bose This And That

2014-09-20 Thread Hamit Campos
Okay. Cool man. Seriously though, did they get rid of it the air?I couldn't find it last time I went to the site. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 12:27 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List

Re: Bose This And That

2014-09-20 Thread Dane Trethowan
No, the Soundlink Air is no longer available, its been replaced by the Soundtouch, there are 3 versions of the Soundtouch and the one that replaces the Soundlink Air is the portable version. On 21 Sep 2014, at 6:09 am, Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com wrote: Okay. Cool man. Seriously

Re: Bose This And That

2014-09-20 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Actually i don't know. I have just learned the remote control of my ihome iw1 speakers so i am really happy with it right now. When i can i will try to aford the braven bluetooth speakers. From what i have heard they're much better than the jambox. /A 20 sep 2014 kl. 22:09 skrev Hamit Campos

Request.

2014-09-20 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I am not sure if someone can help me. I know that NPR did a radio drama of star wars. Does anybody know if one can get that somewhere? I really know the films and have seen some of them but i really do want to hear the radio drama. Thanks. /A

Re: Bose This And That

2014-09-20 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! The Jambox is old hack now, like so many other products they used their name to sell the thing and just didn't update the hardware so as a consequence other and better devices have sept the market place. This is very interesting actually, I thought the reverse may happen in the case of

RE: Bose This And That

2014-09-20 Thread Hamit Campos
Ah okay. Yeah I kept looking and looking to see but I guess not. Interesting. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 4:20 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Bose This And That No,

RE: Request.

2014-09-20 Thread Adrian Spratt
Anders, This would have been better off-list, but I don't see your email address anywhere. So briefly, Amazon in the US has the CD version of the original 13-episode series, and there are links on the page to at least one of the subsequent two radio series. Here's the link:

Airfoil For Windows

2014-09-20 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! Has anyone tried Airfoil For Windows lately. I installed the latest available version this morning and was pleasantly surprised to discover that the software now has a menu system which makes life somewhat easier, in the past with Airfoil you had to tab around to the buttons and use