I only discovered that SBs are discontinued via an email from Ripcaster suggesting that I "trade-up" (?) my Transporter to something in the Linn DS range! But I still shiver in horror every time I see the term "UPnP": every UPnP device I've tried to use has been awful. There's always some function that I've considered critical that is simply not supported, and impossible to add on. (Can I create and control slideshows on my UPnP-enabled TV? No way. etc.)
I've been wondering for several years, what would I do if my Transporter went kaput? Last year I bought a Cyrus X MP Qd (or some arrangement of those letters) which has a built-in D2A converter. Though I prefer the Transporter's line output, I always thought that I could fall back on the Cyrus, and perhaps connect one of my other Squeezeboxen, should the T die. When they've all gone (assuming that they do), I'm not sure what I'll do; maybe some sort of tiny computer with a massive hard drive (or perhaps massive SSD by then?) feeding the amp's d2a directly. That would only give us music in one room. Elsewhere, I'd probably have something portable, with its own copy of our library. I'm rarely bothered about syncing multiple rooms these days (though in part this is because our Virgin Media router's WiFi is too unreliable; either that or our Boom is on its way out already). Ideally it would have as good a sound as the Boom. (I've tried plugging an iPod into the Boom, and it's just not in the same league!) But the beasts aren't dead yet. Who knows what will be available by the time they are? Lossless audio, sync'd from the cloud? -- Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96191 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
