------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Would you buy a new Squeezebox player if it became available? - Yes , if less than $100 - Yes, if less than $200 - Yes, if less than $500 - Yes, if less than $1000 - Yes - price is no object; I just want the best sound - No - I would NOT buy another Squeezebox player ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seems to me that there three distinct markets evolving here: 1) is the Radio market (i.e. streamer + built in speaker) - a SB revival won't win this because Logitech has it locked down - though such a device is arguably best suited to mass i-device appeal. 2) the sub $500 market of people who want a device to deliver streaming music to their existing stereo (from personal cloud storage, internet radio, NAS, USB stick, SD Card, PC/Mac, whatever), which is likely comprised of a receiver with its own DAC(s). In this use case, analog outputs and amplification are completely necessary - the entire device could be digital, designed for the sole purpose of passing the highest quality (bits/Hz) signal to a receiver for decoding - from a marketing perspective the quality possible should be better than the best offered by Sonos. Building AirPlay or Bluetooth into a device like this might also increase the size of the market to which it would appeal. 3) the HiFi folks who want their streamer to also serve as a super high quality DAC - the use case here is for folks who are going to plug a Transport like device into a power amp, such that high quality outputs are an absolute necessity. Users of this deice would probably not want any AirPlay or Bluetooth potentially introducing noise. Other digital inputs that the super high quality DAC portion can be used independent of any related streaming functionality would also probably be appreciated by these user. Why not aim for 2 and 3? Seems there profitable markets for both. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ninthsrw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
