Carl Maskelyne wrote:
You make so many assumptions and narrow-minded statements in this mail that it's not worth replying to. Oooops, I already did, so while I'm here...
This whole thread seems to be a bit over the top to me. I have a squeezebox that I can move around my house listen to all of my music, take it in the garden for BBQ's and plug it into my stereo.
That's why *you* have a Squeezebox, and it is indeed perfectly suited for that purpose.
> The true Audiophiles are in the
main still on vinyl because CD's "don't have the same warm feel".
Rubbish. Sorry, that's too polite: bollocks. Early digital technology was not well understood and did indeed sound poor. Current technology is far better and sounds comparable to "quality" vinyl. You obviously had some exposure to "audiophiles" sometime back in the 80s/90s and haven't moved on.
> Most of us
probably use the SB in the way I have described and love it for being small
portable giving us access to all of our music all around the house. At the
moment is there probably no better way doing this.
Let me get this straight, because *you* use your Squeezebox in a particular way then "most of us" probably do too? Wrong. This world is a diverse place.
Lets face it how many of us have copied our entire collection across as WAV files anyway.
I think you'll find that there is a significant body of SB users who use flac or some other lossless compression that is streamed as PCM (WAV if you prefer). Check out http://bugs.slimdevices.com and search for bugs with more than 10 votes. There are 5. Native FLAC decoding has nearly three times as many votes as the next highest (38 vs. 14).
> For me the convenience of being able to listen to all my
tracks at a slightly reduce quality out ways the hassle of digging through piles of albums to find a record at the back that I haven't listened to for years.
Key phrase: "for me". And that's great, I'm happy that you are getting great use out of your SB. But don't assume that most other people are just like you.
Could make some enemys here but the few Audiophiles that I know are still all listening to 70's prog rock that doesn't sound that great at the best of times.
Once again, don't judge the rest of the world based on your own narrow experiences.
R. -- http://robinbowes.com
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