mauidan Wrote: > Interesting. Spoke to a friend today who's a computer specialist, and he > sent back the SB3 and ordered the cambridge. There does seem to be duplication in the Cambridge product - it has only 160G, which for anyone with a decent library is too small for lossless. It does say that it can then stream off PCs, so why put the disk on the device? I suppose for those people who don't have that many CDs and want a single box solution, but why not make the disk an option?
The SB3 to me is closest thing right now to the audiophile dream, it does one job and does it well. I appreciate fully that it is built to be the best possible for a fixed budget and it does a cracking job of it, but being able to spend more to get more would be nice. I have a old Micromega CD player that had replaceable electronics, so that you could buy uprated circuitry to improve the sound. That would be great for the SB. Better still, how about a SB3 transport, no DAC, but uprated PSU and internal wiring and components in a discrete metal case? Having a seperate DAC is common enough amongst audiophiles to make that desireable I would have thought. As to there not being enough potential customers to make it worthwhile, well how do high end valve amp companies survive with amps at $20K plus? -- CardinalFang ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19016 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
