ninthsrw wrote: > I was optimistic, but these guys are starting to sleaze me out. Their > plan to provide the analog out appears to involves a separate connector > box, for which they will be charging extra, and which will require some > sort of proprietary "umbilical" connection to the portion housing the > DAC and "HD" amplifier. It seems they have had this plan since day one > though nothing on their main Indogogo page says anything about it, and > it appears that they have been deleting indigogo comments where they > addressed the connector box early on, notably including a post in > which they suggested that they would not be charging indigogo pledgers > extra for the connector box. Proprietary connectors, apparently > misleading PR, trying to suggests that somehow 1 watt from their product > is more than 1 watt from something else these guys do not seem like > they are shaping up to be the answer to our woes, but at least they are > trying to develop a product, as opposed to killing off what they've > got...
That's what I've been afraid of since the first time I heard of this project. As a former Olive Opus 4 owner, I can tell you they LOVE their proprietary formats and they want to create and Apple-like closed infrastructure. Plus as least with my Opus, the hardware was a LONG way from reliable... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dyohn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5211 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97599
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