let me preface all of this by saying - i LOVE teh squeezebox philosophy. but my order of favorites goes 1. sb classic (ie 3) 2. boom 3. duet
the duet got relegated to secondary duty in the bedroom system. for those who still complain about it: the controller is very finicky about the wireless router it works with. i changed to a linksys wrt610n and can recommend it. however, the wheel user if never lived up to its promise, it is cumbersome for large music collections. i hear about that SB Touch. it think *that* *in* a controller type device would be the ueber user interface for all things squeeze, finally. i am looking forward to the touch. i will get one. i love the classic - the UI is basic, but very purposeful and it *works*, and if you have good audio equipment it allows you to connect to it and go. i love the boom, it allows you to connect more and more spots in your home to music at audio quality that is very good for the price point, and unbeatable for convenience. if i was starting a system from scratch - i'd love the transporter. but i haven't had the chance to justify it yet, and i think what was a great product for an aspiring private company (slimdevices) may be too narrow a product for a consumer oriented company such as logitech, and think the transporter an endangered species... (sadly) i have been a slim customer since 2005. here is my feedback to logitech: 1. you have one of the best value popositions in the industry. open source, awesome usability - do NOT give up. this product line can establish utter dominance in the market. 2. focus on stability and usability 3. you guys could be the iPhone of audio. this is open source, how about an "open source application store" (but free for users) for all things slim? there is *no* marketing around the expandability and openess of the product, and it seems the application developers have neglected the platform since takeover by logitech because of that. developers have built great stuff on the slim platform - don't ever give the open source aspect up. the market will come to appreciate it. "i'm a mac"... thanks no... "i'm a pc"... pardon me while i throw up a little.. "i am open, i am you, i can be what you as a user truly want and need me to be"... heck yes. 4. make sure the audio is pure. please. keep the clean reproduction philosophy. give me a low BER optical interface, always. keep the DA clean. pure audio. please. never allow fanciness and flashiness to compromise audio quality. please. -- pablolie ...pablo Server: 3.3 GHz Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo (8GB) - Vista Ultimate 64 (and formerly Ubuntu 8.10 64) Sources: SB3 (4), SB Boom (2), Duet, Accuphase DP65v CD Amplifier: Accuphase E306v Loudspeakers: Ceeroy 3-way tower tuned by Darmstadt Psychoacoustics Lab Headphones: Grado SR-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67040 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
