The OP's 'conclusion' post gave a good summary from his point of view, but I have to agree with the comment from iPhone...QUALITY enters into the picture for me. I started out on this music network quest with Audiotron (anyone remember that?) streaming MP3's. While I was at the computer trying to get it to work, my wife was in the sitting room shouting 'turn that crap off'. The lowish MP3 quality offended her ears. Then along came the Transporter & I found FLAC. Coupled with a good amp and a pair of Kef 205/2's, this is (for me) audio nirvana. I want a system that I KNOW is better than my ears. Just this last weekend I culled 766 128kbs MP3s from my collection. Anything lower than 128Kbps was gone a long time ago. I'm getting old, I don't have the time left to listen to crap.
I don't want music 'from the cloud', until as iPhone mentions, it comes in FLAC quality. Thus for the naive user, the first question before embarking on networked music systems is: "Do you really spend time 'listening' to music, or are you just looking for a nice system to give you background noise?". Depending on the answer, you point them in the direction of the radio or SB Networked music. Dan -- chinablues ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chinablues's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7955 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67637 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
