Squid;164231 Wrote: > I've been looking for several months now at buying a new hifi set for > the new house. The budget was about 2500 (roughly equals $2500). This > took a new turn after I discovered Squeezebox. Especially after playing > around with SoftSqueeze the past week, I'm totally convinced that I want > to have a Squeezebox. I also decided not to go for a NAS, considering > the many posts on performance issues, while the SlimServer on my new PC > works very well, especially with the web interface. The latter is almost > a requirement, since we have several IP devices (laptops, ipaqs, > psps,...) in the house with which we could control the Squeezebox. > Considering that I also need a 500G harddisk, I'm left with a budget of > 2000 now. I'm left with a dilemma though: digital or analogue. > > Basically the question I have is: how decent is the analogue out of the > SB ? If it is very decent, I guess that spending 2000 on amp+speakers > may yield me better results than spending the same amount of money on > dac+amp+speakers. The gain in using the digital out may already be > entirely lost in having to buy cheaper components (esp. dac+amp). > > What do you think/suggest ? > > Tnx!
I use SB3 analog on a kit which cost me about $3000, and I am not in a rush to do anything at the moment. I would recommend that you buy an amp, speakers and decent cables for the money. If possible, get a linear PSU for the SB3 as well. You can always get a DAC at a later stage. -- tomsi42 SB3, Rotel RC-1070/RB-1070, dynaBel Exact, Kimber Kable 4TC and Timbre. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tomsi42's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2477 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30840 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
