MrSinatra;467944 Wrote: > (altho i personally think the "radio" is one stupid product, and > transporter ridiculously overpriced) > >
I can't fathom your lack of love for the SB Radio. What's not to like? Compact, tote-able package; the forthcoming battery pack for true mobility; great sound (according to the beta testers - I haven't heard it yet); the color display; and an extremely affordable price. The only knock I've heard on it is the lack of stereo, and that shouldn't be much of a problem in that small a package - mono output is fine. Actually, I'll rephrase my question at the top: what's not to LOVE? I predict the Radio will be a big hit, and almost certainly will be the product that moves me to a multi-Squeezebox household in the near future. The Transporter, on the other hand, is an extremely niche product. I have no idea how much the markup on it is, but it's probably a lot. But if it were priced a lot less expensively, it would not appeal to a significant segment of the "audiophile" market because they would refuse to believe that it was any good at that price. (An aside: when did the woo-woo fringe take over audiophile country? Back in the '70s and '80s, in the glory days of Stereo Review magazine featuring the hardnosed engineer Julian Hirsch as their equipment maven, there was an emphasis on scientific method: what differences can be reliably distinguished in listening tests? how do those differences correlate to measurable characteristics of equipment? how do we test to minimize listener bias? Etc.; for example, Hirsch was one of the first to debunk the myths of gourmet speaker cables. You could go into your local hi-fi store and assemble a decent system, with components from good manufacturers, for a decent price. Nowadays, the middle-priced high-quality stereo equipment market seems to have gone the way of the dodo, and most of the information out there - certainly the magazines - seem to be written by woo-woo charlatans.) -- kmr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kmr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10664 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68947 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
