Back in late 2002, I remember wanting a device to play music through my stereo. I had an Archos Studio 20GB player, and that was OK as long as you didn't mind the same playlist over and over.
I was searching through Amazon and came across the Audiotron. I really wanted it, but didn't want to spend the money - I was about to become a Dad. In one of the reviews for the Audiotron, somebody wrote that the Slimp3 was the best device ever, so I did some more research. I found Slim Devices and Roku. Roku was about to release their player any day, and it looked a lot cooler than a Squeezebox. I pondered on which was better for a few months. After a few months, Roku was still about to relase their player any day. I finally couldn't wait anymore and bought the Squeezebox. I think six months later Roku was still about to release their player any day, and I was very happy with my SB1. We lived in a city loft (two bedrooms and one big room where all the interior walls only went up about 70% of the ceiling height - 12'), so one squeezebox could fill the whole place with music. I would sit with my newborn daughter and play an eclectic mix of tunes until she would fall asleep. My only complaint was the horrible display (by today's standards) on the SB1. When the Graphic upgrade was released, I think I was one of the first to order the upgrade kit. About a year later, the wife wanted a yard, so we moved to suburbia and got a standard house with a yard. I decided I needed whole house audio since I basically had that in the city. I bought an SBG for my daughters room, and picked up a Purple Haze for the master bedroom. About 3 months later the SB2 came out and I felt a little cheated (I didn't get a pony). When the SB3 was released, I was about to have my son, so I bought two of them. I now have 5 players, some decent whole house audio, and if I have to listen to the theme from the Lion King again, I may very well go nuts. I've gone from Slimserver 5.2 up to SC7.2 and my daughter's SB plays non stop Disney 24-7. I don't know what's more impressive, the SB or the homemade dual Xeon P3 450 that's been serving up the music for the last 5+ years. Truly a great product. -- hoosier ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hoosier's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13116 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53831 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
