On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 15:19 -0700, JulianL wrote: > Indeed. One wonders how the SB2 would be received if it was put into a > fancy minimalist but bulky high end housing, increased in price by an > order of magnitude, and some key designer from Krell/Naim/Linn/Meridian > or similar taken onto Slim Devices staff just so they could spin an > audiophile message to the shops and mags. Audiophile shops rubbishing > the concept is ridiculous, people like Linn and Meridian already offer > equipment that in principle is the same as SB2 (Meridian make a big > point of jitter reduction by taking the bitstream out of a big solid > state buffer and Linn sell an HD player). Slim Devices just quietly > delivery this stuff at a fair price and, since their entire company is > built around this one concept, they have really thought hard about the > protocols and the UI. I do have reasonably high-end audio, I'm sitting > in front of over $10,000 of Meridian equipment as I type this, but I am > very excited about swapping my CD transport for a SB2.
As you and others have said, it's a very tempting idea. Take the guts of an SB2, stick it in a big box. Include a big, heavy, linear power supply, and maybe some of the HW mods that have been described (especially supply regulators, word clocks and digital output fanglers - the HiFi magazines love these). Put the price up to, say 1000UKP and add some pretentious marketing. I'm convinced this would get some interest from the hi-fi press. -- "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
