froth;665768 Wrote: > Even if the whole SB line is tossed out by logitech, as long as you dont > use mysqueeze.com and your SB hardware works, you can keep using it. > More than likly for years after. I plan to do just that. By the time > I need to replace my kit or expand it there may other good options out > there. If I had to do it today, I think my best option is the Sono's > solution as I would not be impacted by it's limitations.
I looked hard at Sonos, but the lack of any hi-res playback is just a showstopper for me. I don't have an enormous stock of hi-res music, but I do have a significant amount. If from nothing else than needle drops from my record collection. Meridian is a little too expensive and a little too closed. The closest competition is Auraliti's, and they start around $600 or $700. Going up from there you can get any quality you want, it just requires an outlay of money. The SBT seems to have - uniquely - got it all right, in one box, at an incredibly favorable price. I don't know of anything out there that does it quite as well. Mac's + iTunes come close, but they are limited to 16/44.1 like Sonos, unless you use much more complex - and expensive - software and/or methods. Linux is close, but just try to put one together than has the reliable and easy to use remote control, 24/96+, streaming, synchronization, internet radio, and Spotify sounding goo at 320kbs. Oh yeah, that will autoswitch sample rates and play music haplessly without going though really intricate and mysterious incantations. No kidding, SBT has got it right. They did get a few things wrong, in my opinion, but I am dead sure that is due to cost. Remember please, I have bee listening only through fairly high quality DACs connected via Coax. Compared to that, the internal DAC fed through the onboard analog is pretty poor, hissing on sibilants like an overheated teakettle. As far as I am concerned, they could leave off the entire DAC and analog section. :) Secondly, the USB implementation not supporting - or easily supporting - USB DACs is the pits. Pretty much all the really good DACs today are USB based, and moreover, are asynchronous. I got the SBT touch to feed my Wavelength Proton this morning just perfectly, and it made utterly gorgeous sound - for 45 seconds. After that point, it started hissing and popping like a pissed off rattlesnake. The SBT touch does not embarrass itself attached to a $5000 DAC, in fact, it sounds - I can't think of a word to express how good it sounds. Amazing .Jaw on the floor kiss my grits amazing. I'm not buying a non-USB Dac in that price range, but I suppose I am going to drop a grand or so on a decent DAC with S/PDIF inputs. -Paul P.S. I don't mean to sound like a fanboy, but I am simply amazed. And pleased. And a little pissed off about the USB thing. -- paul.raulerson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ paul.raulerson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=50346 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91090 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
