I'm not planning to dump my Squeezeboxen anytime soon. Probably not until the hardware starts to die, and I hope (and pretty much expect) that won't be for many years. As long as I still have a version of LMS that works, the devices I have are just fine. But if the time comes that I have to abandon the SB hardware, whatever new system I go with will have to be able to sync devices, reliably, without fail. That's crucial.
I have a large house, with (currently) 8 SBs (Duets, Touches, Booms and Radios) covering 3 floors plus the deck and patio, and I can't imagine having a party with people in the living room, kitchen, family room, patio and deck, and not being able to have the music on in all those places. If they're not in sync, it would sound like hell, and even worse if they're stuttering and pausing to resync. Even ignoring the party/socializing aspect, on weekends I routinely have music on all through the house. To me, sync is absolutely critical. There's no such thing as "close enough"; sync is either perfect or it isn't sync. And I can't imagine any system achieving SB-quality synchronization without specialized hardware married to custom firmware. I don't see how the timing/buffering issue can be reliably handled unless the latencies are known and predictable, and using a collection of PC-based soundcards doesn't look like the way to handle that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dogberry2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97721 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
