What the inventors of all the high end streamers never gets is the integration of whole networked system like LMS/Squeezebox or to some part Sonos and Solos .
They can fill it with all the high end gizmos they want the experience of actually using the product will be at best unimaginitave but possibly horrible . Another meh streamer in aluminium box ? if they ever spend as much resources and imagination at the " backend " but no ,some generic DLNA solution/chip of the shelf ( o gosh did it cost that much doing software ) with what little they have left in the project budget . sound quality is dare I say it a solved problem ,solve the other problem of building a great system and ecosystem ! A networked player conected to DAC ain't that bad considering the involved parties can do what do best . The Transporter was a true one off a kind , a good DAC and a good network streamer in the same box ? do we ever see that again ? ( well to some extent the Touch is that to ) possible the CSOS project . The LMS ecosystem can be improved upon greatly but nothing I've seen yet actually does it ? so I have my spare Touches boxed away and waiting for the comunity player to be ready . When the guys have done the CSOS and squeezelite and the player hardware launch ready then we will have something to replace our ageing players with :) I think they be done before any comercial vendor actually gets it ? I'm not an optimist here , but since the typical hifi brand don't get there is simply no competition so CSOS can take the time it takes to do it ? It's not like there is an alternative..... Re ecosystem some built in music stores would be great , anyone trying that besides iTunes and Pono ? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100948 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
