azinck3;676334 Wrote: > Haha, it appears at the ripe old age of 29 I'm now an old fart -- "give > me back my VFDs!!" :). I guess I'm outvoted so far.> > > > > > > Must be a quirk of our age indeed, I bought my Classic shortly after it > > disappeared from the Logitech webshop and still love the display as I > > find it easy to read. Thankfully, it hasn't faded or conked out yet as > > I know it has for some. > > I also found it a huge upgrade to the other web radio I had previously > > in terms of reliability, user interface and quality. > > > > I had a Duet for some time as well, it was a pain to set up initially > > due to old firmware still loaded onto it when it arrived, but then > > worked OK most of the time. I still didn't like it quite as much as the > > Classic, the controller has become somewhat obsolete for me since I have > > an Android phone and the receiver doesn't provide any advantages over > > the Classic, IMHO. That's why I sold it. > > > > If my Classic ever dies, I will try to get another one rather than a > > Touch. From what I have seen, the internal server of the Touch is too > > fussy to be even considered a feature and the touchscreen seems to > > scratch pretty easily. > > Also, if I had the choice between the Radio and the Boom, I would go > > for the Boom. I don't need a portable internet radio and prefer the > > looks of the Boom. > > > > That said, I agree that the biggest mistake was to try to turn a niche > > product for audiophiles into a mass market product, from lowering > > quality on the hardware side to all those unreliable half-finished > > plugins and gimmicks (headphone jack on the Controller, STILL-missing > > RSS settings on MySB, I am looking at you!). > > > > And now they have extended the server to be a general media server, > > which most of us already have built into the OS of our PC or NAS or > > gaming console or... I fail to see why I would need that. I bet most of > > us could have thought of more pressing matters to sovlve but of course, > > none of these involve selling Squeezeboxes to even more people who > > don't really understand the purpose of the product (partially due to > > marketing errors) in the first place :-/.
-- Asenath83 Living room setup: SB Classic / Denon DRA-545 RD Stereo AM/FM tuner / Denon SC-M2 bookshelf speakers / Harmony 525 SqueezeCommander on HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1 WIP: SqueezepPlug server with 1 TB Western Digital Elements USB hard drive Planned: SB Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Asenath83's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92232 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
