On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 23:00 +0100, Daniel Cohen wrote: > On 16/8/05 at 22:06 +0100, Mark Bennett wrote > > Possibly hi-fi dealers don't like the Squeezebox, and maybe they > haven't tried SB2. Or perhaps the features that make us really like > SB don't seem of interest to them.
I think there is an element of truth in this. I took my laptop/SB2/Benchmark Dac-1 into a couple of hi-fi shops at the beginning of the year to audition new amps/speakers. One shop was very dismissive of the technology, saying that it could never sound as good as a real CD player. The other shop was more ambivalent and were vaguely interested in how it performed. Perhaps the real issue here is that the SB2 doesn't appeal to hi-fi shops. It doesn't look like the rest of their products, there's not enough margin to make it worth their while and there's probably too much risk of a novice needing far too much support to get a system working. -- "The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
