ninthsrw wrote: > 1) What exactly did the majority vote for?: The vote was limited to only > selecting what connectivity methods might be desirable, not selecting > how those connectivity methods would be implemented (other than with > respect to overall delay and overall increased cost with respect to the > product as a whole) - there was insufficient resolution in the voting to > conclude that the majority voted for a connector box. Moreover, > disclosure by Olive regarding the the ways they might have chosen to > implement a connector box was so inadequate - because of deleted posts - > that it cannot even be said the majority were impliedly voting for a > connector box. > > 2) Per the comments on indigogo they deleted, the connector box has been > on the table since a day or two after the indigogo campaign, before any > pressure from the Sqeezebox crowd manifest. >
I have been reading all of the comments on the indigogo site since the Olive ONE campaign started (& have posted a few myself). If I recall correctly, the early discussions about a connector box / hub may have been referring to what Olive are now calling a PAC which is the box that provides a power connector & speaker connections (with a single cable running back from the PAC to the ONE containing the separate wires for power/analogue audio), however I may be wrong about this. The initial product envisaged by the Olive engineers wasnt going to provide any audio connections other than the speaker connections in the PAC, however, almost immediately people starting asking if a digital out could be added to allow owners to use their own DAC (or feed an AV amp). Olive advised that this could be achieved without a great deal of work (as am guessing that the PCB already had a connection for a digital out). Since then, people (I was one of them) started asking for additional connections: analogue out, wired Ethernet & USB. Hence the reason that Olive sent a survey to every backer asking for them to select which additional connectors (& other features) were of most importance & to confirm that they still wanted these to be included even if it meant pushing out the launch date (from July to Sep). I believe that Olive didnt include a question in the survey about a new connection box as this came after the survey results had been collated showing that a large majority wanted additional connections so Olive then had to find the most elegant solution for this. Were Olive engineers able to come up with a fully thought through solution within a couple of days of the survey closing? No, I am sure that they would have started looking at this a number of weeks ago as a result of the feedback in the comments section. There is more background info here: http://www.indiegogo.com/OliveONE?c=activity ..and you can see the connector box here: http://myoliveone.com/Ones/tech_specs I think this is a great solution: for people like me who want to be able to integrate the ONE into 4 different SB based systems that I have in my house (one that uses the SB coax digital out to an external DAC, 2 that use the analogue outs to active speakers and another that uses optical out to an AV amp), I will buy the connector box; for people who have more modest demands & just want to hook up the ONE to a pair of speakers, they dont need to buy the connector box. Re the communications from Olive (and some comments being deleted), whilst some people may see this as subterfuge, I just see this as a company trying to provide a coherent message. Personally, I find the idea of being able to shape the design of a new product very exciting and think that the dialogue that Olive has opened up with potential customers is a great idea. Some of the ideas that people are suggesting are a bit niche (i.e. DAB+ radio, being able to stream audio from TVs, audio inputs etc), but this is bound to happen. Until the ONE is launched, I will continue to make great use of my current squeezeboxes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EliteAV's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97599 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
