Well, you need either one of those you mentioned. The have some drawbakcs and pros each being roughly the same device but with slight differences. The all do pandora streaming. But the boom does not stream via spdif neither coaxial nor optical. The transporter is far too expensive if you merely do compressed music streaming formats So remaining are the Squeezebox classic aka squeezebox 3. Or the new and all shiny squeezebox receiver. The latter has no display and though can only be controlled via network. That is to say via squeezebox controler which is a special remote with display to browse music collections from your easy chair. When deciding for a squeezebox receiver you could as well use an iphone or note/netbook to control squeezecenter which in turn controls the squeezebox receiver. The squeezebox classic has a display (bit small though) and an infrared remote like any other hifi unit would have. So it is really up to you. I'd choose a classic / sb3 for it has - infrared remote - vfd display (small) - spdif out optical and coaxial - reasonable dac
You say you want to connect to a hifi. Well, then the boom is not for you. It has it's own speakers and amplifier. All products have rca analogue outputs. So they will connect to your amplifier just fine. -- jaysung ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jaysung's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12375 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56514 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
