At $2225.00 for both, yes it's a good price, pretty equivalent to my
total end costs.  Although keep in mind, the 30 day free trial is only
available if you order direct from Slim which in my case ended up being
a good thing.  

My transporter failed after about 8 hrs of playing time.  And I mean
"hardware" failure.  I was going to keep the unit as I really liked it,
and I think it looks good, and sounds great.  SD did offer to repair the
unit under warranty, but quite frankly, in my opinion, since the unit
was still under the free 30 day trial provision,with roughly  8 hrs of
playing time, they should have gone a step further and sent a new unit.
This is after all a $2000.00 dollar component and I as a purchaser
didn't feel quite right about accepting what amounts to a flawed
repaired unit especially while not knowing the cause.  In Slims
defence, I did receive an email saying "if parts were readily
available" they would cross ship a new unit but I was left with a sense
of uncertainty.

I ran the Squeezebox through my TG5 Processor and quite frankly with
the Sunfire doing the work, it sounded awsome.  Even then, I would have
kept the Transporter as I also wanted to use it on my Sunfires second
out which is wired, and feeds the rest of my house, since the
Transporters analogue outs would have bypassed the Sunfires internal
processor, it would have been a great second pre-amp/precessor to add
to my existing system for my zone 2.

The point of this post is not to berate SD, but rather to point out the
importance of that 30 day free trial and the value it adds to purchasing
your transporter direclty from Slim.

For now, my transporter is on it's way back and hopefully a refund will
be expedited.


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