WhatsNext;409624 Wrote: > You are looking at two different levels of product both from usability > and sound. Logitech does a much better job of usability with SC7 and > the Squeezebox Controller. You have cover art, easier playlist, and > more intuitive controls. You also have a lot more services and > internet features. The Linn GUI is clunky and unfriendly. > > From a sound perspective the Akurate is better in almost every way. > You should listen to them yourself, but I found the DS to be a lot more > enjoyable to listen to. It also cost three times as much as a > Tranporter. The Sneaky DS would be a better direct comparison from a > price perspective. > > The Linn UI can run on a laptop or PDA. My DS dealer loves the Mac so > he uses a third party UI designed for the DS that is available for the > iphone/itouch. It's called Songbook and it supports cover flow and a > host of other cool features such as easy playlist manipulation. You > can look it up in the app store in iTunes. > > The Akurate DS does not support digital out, if thats important to you. > The Logitech does. You would need to move down in the DS line if you > want that feature. > > I like both for different reasons. If the UI is very important to you > at the moment, then Logitech is the way to go. if you don't mind > integrating third party products and spending more money, then the Linn > will be a more musical experience.
There's a very good reason why the Akurate and Klimax don't have a digital out... It would undermine the entire point of the products - which are basically superdacs, with an ethernet receiver tacked on the front. I cannot imagine why anyone would buy one of these boxes and then want to connect them to other DACS (even if they could). It would the grandest waste of money. In point of fact the reason why I wouldn't buy one of them (and yes I've had lengthy demos of both) is that they have no digital loop-through for my TACT. I have heard enough "ethernet transports" now to conclude that - used PURELY as a transport - there is little if anything to choose between them. I couldn't justify a TP purely as a transport over an SB3. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38815 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
