True, there are a lot of ways to potentially slice it into two boxes. But the costs don't work the way you think - a good chunk of it is the chassis itsef, and there are many other cost savings as well as functional advantages to having everything in one box.
That said, Transporter's processor, wireless, and front panel hardware are modular and could potentialy be upgraded separatey from the audio section. However in reality it is extremely difficult to predict what specific hardware lies ahead. While we did once offer a very popuar hardware upgrade kit (the 280x16 dispay for SB1) it's not like we can say yes there will be a CPU upgrade next year or anything like that. Obviously we recognize that Transporter is a significant investment for many, and we've designed it to have a very long useful life by making the hardware extraordinarily flexible. For example, the word clock output feature was a trivial programmable logic change - no hardware change necessary... and there are a number of other such features on the drawing board to take advantage of transporter's IO capabilities in interesting ways. That is the sort of flexibility we have. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26202 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
