Unlike a lot of posters in the other thread in the "General Discussion" forum, I am in the audiophile target market and can spend $2000 on something like this.........BUT
As a few people have said - if you already have a good DAC it grates to pay for high end analog audio you won't use. I just bought an SB3 and feed it into a Meridian G91 using the coax SPDIF. I'm very happy with it (apart from intermittent wireless throughput issues unrelated to signal strength, and occasional stuttering including momentary display scrolling unrelated to wireless throughput/buffer fullness.) It sounds great - Meridian G91 feeds SPDIF input data into a large FIFO buffer and reclocks everything before upsampling to 192kHZ/24bit and in my case feeding out to an analog Meridian G57 power amp and B&W 804 speakers. No I don't have exotic power cables..... What would induce me to spend more money with Slim Devices for a better Squeezebox device? In priority order: 0. A way to purchase individual songs online in lossless format. 1. More reliable WiFi transmission (not a signal strength or channel interference issue - see above). 2. bigger display with more characters readable from 12 feet away by 40 year olds - skip the screensaver spectrum analyser 3. a low jitter digital only version (SPDIF only no BNC/XLR, no DAC) 4. 96Khz/24 bit output option - upsampling from 44.1khz/16 bit 5. a legal way to rip DVD-Audio in 5.1 96kHz/24bit or even just a two channel mixes at up to 192 kHz/24 bit onto Slimserver for personal use and stream it to Squeezebox - consider using MLP to reduce data rate. E.g. Figure a way to pay a license fee to decrypt the data, re-encode with DRM to permit only streaming to Squeezebox not file copying, and charge the small DVD-Audio market $100 extra for a Slimserver plug-in that does this. 6. A way of running multiple Squeezeboxes with lossless, synced audio without multiplying use of WiFi bandwidth. Multi-cast? Ad-hoc mode from one SB to the next on a separate channel/SSID? 7. WMA lossless decoding native in the Squeezebox assuming a sound quality benefit or reduced delay between songs. Surely the open source community can reverse engineer WMA lossless decoding without needing to run Windows on the Squeezebox? 8. A remote with an IPOD style wheel control All of the above for $2000. Or - I'd settle for a digital only Transporter with only SPDIF output and no DACs and one display with more and larger characters than SB3 for $800. How about it. Transporter/D-Lite. Sanjay -- SanjayJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SanjayJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25835 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
