As I'm sure is true with others here, I've stayed pretty quiet just watching this thread develop. It is pretty exiting to me. I would want this device to be no more than just a high quality player. I've been pretty happy with my Duet controllers and receivers and if I had the ability to replace a Duet receiver with a higher quality unit it would be very tempting on my main stereo. I had bought into the server client type platform back with the Soundblaster Wireless Music system back in late 2003 (very similar to the Duet). I was able to keep mine running through Vista 32bit, but it was a nogo when I went to a 64 bit OS. Just so happened that close to the time I went 64 bit on my music server I found the Duet which was almost like the same thing only the display on the remote was graphic rather than text.
Hopefully this part won't be too controversial. If you give us a DAC better than the Touch I'd see that as a GREAT upgrade, as I use the analog out on my receivers since that's what I need for my old Kenwood (feeds ADS L-810 speakers) and Pioneer (feeds some home built speakers). I quit playing the "audiophile" game over 30 years ago. The kids still like to come over and listen to this old school gear. Once I got my stereos so I liked the sound my changes were adding the newer transports. Went through 2 turntables (Went from home built with this tonearm; http://soundup.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3020%3Aempire-16-pro-transcription-turntable-tonearm-ae-98p&catid=20%3Atonearms&Itemid=92 to a Micro Seiki with a Ortofon cartridge), some different cassette decks (finally settled on a JVC that sounded as good as the Nakamachi Dragon to me) and finally a couple of CD players (the reason for the change was the first one broke). Since you're already going to give all flavors of digital out it should keep the new wave "audiophiles" happy, give us old timers the "cheap" built in DAC. After all, bits is bits. My own personal belief system is that bits only come in two flavors, you don't get "strong, weak, loud, quiet, harsh, hard or soft" bits, there either 1's or 0's, nothing more or less. With that said I'm voting with Erland as one of the 99%'ers. Yes, I read the "audiophile" section of these forums and must say that I do get the occasional good laugh from some of the stuff I read over there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ w3wilkes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22973 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
