kmr;468133 Wrote: > 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 controller [sbc] is smaller, stereo, and more portable. i just don't get a "talk radio" only SB. i really don't. kmr;468133 Wrote: > 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.) the TP is simply NOT worth it. if it had SC [sbs] onboard with say linux / webui and usb options etc, then maybe. it SHOULD have been standalone capable, but as a "highend SB" it is to me, a gross waste of money. julian hirsch would surely agree, as i doubt ANYONE could reliably tell the difference between a SB2 and a TP in a double blind listening test. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - w/sc 7.3.4b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68947 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
