magiccarpetride;698599 Wrote: > If you go back and re-read discussions pertaining to many attempts to > improve SBT, you will see that, overall, Logitech engineers/designers > etc. seem to be firmly standing the ground that such a thing is a > pathetic pipe dream. In other words, according to the Logitech > marketing, it is not theoretically possible to improve upon the sound > quality of Logitech Squeezebox Touch. > > The grassroots community that is not beholden by the vendor's agenda > appears to think differently. Guys like Soundcheck claim that there is > room for improvement, and he had been working tirelessly on providing > some positive modifications to the vanilla SBT. His efforts have been > met with enormous, almost hysterical resistance by the vendor, which > begs the question: why? > > Of course, the stock answer is that the vendor claims that guys like > Soundcheck are pulling the wool over the unsuspecting audio community's > eyes, and in behaving like that, he is doing a huge disservice to all > naive, uninstructed audiophiles. Sounds like a very noble stance, even > grandstanding, if you ask me. > > But is that really the whole story? Why would the vendor be so much > against the possibility of improving its already quite popular product?
Please point out even one or two posts where an official logitech person has discussed the soundcheck mods, one way or the other. There has certainly been feedback from the user community, but I'd say LOGITECH themselves have been silent on this issue rather than demonstrating "hysterical resistance" -- garym *Location 1:* VB Appliance 6TB (1.10) > LMS 7.7.1 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VB Appliance 3TB (2.0) > LMS 7.7.1 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.7.1 > SqueezePlay Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver Controllers: iPhone4S (iPeng), iPad2 (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Additional Tagging - mp3tag ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
