seanadams;254206 Wrote: > Hmm, well, right off the top of my head, they gave our competitor very > poor marks for sound quality: > > http://www.stereophile.com/mediaservers/507roku/index1.html > > Is that a relevant example? > > Also, Roku had advertised in Stereophile, whereas we never had ,and > never did for a long time... not until after we were acquired by > Logitech. > > Can you explain that? > > And besides all of that... they were talking about MEASUREMENTS. You > can verify them yourself!
Thansk for pointing it out to us this is exacty what i mean , its still not a bad review . The still tie it together so the people will buy it. Conclusions The Roku SoundBridge M1001's low price ($199.99), large display, and ability to play DRM-protected files are all positive factors for an inexpensive network music player. It is less expensive than the Sonos ZP80 system ($999), and betters Slim Devices' Squeezebox in that it can play DRM-wrapped files downloaded from Napster. Roku's manual and website discourage telephone support, so the user must rely on a frustrating web-based fill-in sheet to get tech support, which responds within 24 hours. However, I was left with some nagging concerns about this otherwise promising network music player. First, while I strongly preferred the SoundBridge's digital output fed to an external DAC over its analog outputs, which improved the dynamics and soundstage depth for orchestra music, I felt that the omnipresent low-level noise lent subtle colorations to vocal recordings. Second, running the SoundBridge with Windows Media Connect 2.0 required too much maintenance from me. Not only did I have to kick-start the music server by moving all of my music files out of, and then back into, my music subdirectory, but WMC 2.0 intermittently slowed and stopped until after I'd shut down all other software running in the background on my laptop. Finally, I couldn't persuade the Windows XP firewall to make an exception for the SoundBridge, so the firewall had to be shut down as well before I could listen to music. Roku's SoundBridge M1001 will appeal to those who buy most of their recordings from online music stores—such as Napster and Rhapsody—that wrap their files in Microsoft DRM protection. With some caveats, I recommend the Roku SoundBridge M1001, using its digital outputs, as a cost-effective network music player for casual listening. -- harmonic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ harmonic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6879 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41469 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
