garym wrote: > Agree. Seems like an obvious thing. But perhaps just a symptom of the > dummying down of the market to only want something to link to their > smartphone. None of the young people I know even own a preamp/amp or > receiver. In my 20s, my stereo system cost more than my car (although > neither was that great).
I was attending a presentation of Bang&Olufsons new Airplay products last week. When somebody asked about stereo the reply was; In todays world not many people have the time to sit down and listen to music which is why our products are all in mono - good quality mono. There is no requests for stereo in a daily household. I guess the same goes for Libratone products. I am 44 and I dont even have a preamp/amp. I do have good speakers but they are not hooked up... So I strongly believe that if you want to win you would need something like Airplay but with multiroom features on a platform that is available on almost any product as a remote thing. otherwise it will die. Ipeng is a result that clearly shows that the logitech remote is bad - and everybody has an iphone or ipad. My 5 year old daughter has a Tangent ipod dock with an Ipod touch using Ipeng. And as a result of functionality of the in app feature of Ipeng I only use docks with speakers attached instead of my Duet. I have less problems with connections and it takes up less space. I hope that the future will bring more products pointing in that direction but with the ability to support the hifi people out there as well. Jeppe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ paqi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97599 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
