I am with Paul Raulerson, if only for his imaginative way of putting things!
I really want to hook up a asynchronous USB dac to a SB, which at this moment is not really feasible. Soundcheck (with his Touch Toolbox) made the USB port available for output, but the USB driver on the Touch is too old (not class 2 audio capable). So I would really like to see Logitech put an updated Touch on the market with an newer USB driver. That's why this thread interests me. However, we can make this work using Squeezeslave on e.g. a fanless FitPC (which is smaller than a duet and with a SSD is completely silent). The only hurdle is to make hi res work in Squeezeslave. Which unfortunately is not an endeaver for the faint of heart as Ralphy explained to me. You may say: I am loosing the bigger picture here... but once we have an (audiophile) alternative for the SB hardware, we are pretty much on our own. Let people who just want streaming services use their iPads and iPhones etc. They can stream whatever an App Store or Android Market app has to offer directly to a DAC already today (have a look at Arcam's rDAC with support for "Kleer"). Eventually the SB concept will probably loose out to this type of solution for the mass market. But let the mass market be the mass market. I dont see any reason why the SB server x client solution wouldnt be able to survive as a niche open source initiative for a bunch of well-bred enthusiasts :-) But as Erland says, there are no signs from Logitech that they are about to abandon the SB yet. So why worry anyway? thus my two cents Tom -- warpian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ warpian's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49534 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91090 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
