warpian;665836 Wrote: > 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
I think because stock is getting low and its been 2 years since any new products have been launched that people are speculating on the future, most taking a pessimistic view that Logitech are looking to pull the plug -- socistep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91090 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
