I bought my first Slim Devices product in 2004. When I was single and rented an apartment, I was pretty content with playing my CDs. When I married, suddenly the CD collection, assortment of hifi gear, and square footage doubled. Stairs separated some rooms, and, as neither my wife nor I much liked putting the CDs in those hideous nylon storage albums, the CDs ended up where there was enough room to hold them all -- one flight of stairs away from the main stereo. The original Squeezebox looked like a great solution, as I was already accustomed to leaving a computer on the broadband link 24x7. Since I had no desire to pull cat5 through the new house, the wireless version was the obvious choice. I was lucky that just as I decided to take the plunge, the Squeezebox "G" was announced. I ordered one from Slim Devices (at the time, the SD shipping labels had Sean's name printed on them).
My SB1G served me well for years, but has been replaced with a SB3. My house is pretty well covered now with gear ranging from the SB2 to the Boom -- no Transporter, though, as I don't have the hifi gear, space, or source material to really appreciate it. I am enough of an audio geek to have worn ear protection at live concerts and to have auditioned different LAME encoding options before ripping my CDs, but I'm not in the same league as those of you with SB+s, Boulder Mods, boutique cables, 24/96 recordings... :-) The fact that virtually all the intelligence of the devices other than the Controller is in GPLed software in a pretty accessible programming language is a very big draw. It really bugs me to buy something with software that doesn't quite do what I want, and have no way to fix the problem. Thanks to Sean's vision, I can make my Squeezeboxes do what I want (I wrote VolumeLock before my SB1G even arrived, so that it would work better as a standard analog audio component), I can help others tweak their systems, and others like Greg Brown, Felix Mueller, and Michael Herger have been able to help me get more out of my Squeezebox gear. Thanks to the open design and the work of a bunch of folks inside and outside Logitech, I not only have a great way to listen to my music, but to find new music, to stay in touch with the world, and much more. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53831 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
