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?
While I agree, in principle, that there are unanswered questions, I also don't ever recall seeing an official Logitech response/explanation of this particular issue, either. Which is why I asked for one in my other post. I don't see why it would be such a huge deal if, in fact, Logitech were to tell us that the priority and buffer settings were possibly not "tuned" to the absolute optimum values. After, all, there must be, literally, 1,000's of possible combinations of those settings. The designer/engineers would have only had so much time to devote to fine tuning them. That people in this community might have both the time and inclination to play around with more alternatives than was possible for Logitech to do, internally, would not seem to cast any aspersions on Logitech's capabilities. And, certainly, there is lots of precedent here for 3rd parties to improve the product where Logitech didn't have the available resources (Triode's USB work being a recent and prime example) to devote. -- rgro Rg System information ------------------------ Main: PS Audio Quintet > Vortexbox > Teddy Pardo PS, Touch (wired) > Toslink > Rega DAC > LFD LE IV Signature amp > VA Mozart Grands > REL Acoustics R305. Home Theatre: Duet/SBR (Wired) > Pioneer VSX 919 > Energy Take 5 Classic 5.1. SBS 7.7.2 r33908 on a Vortexbox Appliance, V 2.0, Touch: FW 7.7.1 r9558. Duet: FW 77. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
