StridingEdge wrote: > Possibly interesting but doesn't look like anything near the finished > article and not what I'm looking for. > > I suppose what I really want is something very similar to the Touch but > with a screen twice the size and a remote you don't need a teenager with > a magnifying glass to use (to see the tiny buttons and even tinier > writing) > > > Let's see what's my needs are ... > 1. Large screen that displays album artwork > 2. Large remote with well laid out buttons. The Touch fails miserably on > all counts - the buttons are not laid out well, they are too small and > the writing can only be seen with assistance - all presumably because > they insisted on making it the same size as the Touch so that they would > fit into the same outer box > 3. Streaming FLAC and other lossless files from a PC via wireless and to > be able to handle a large library > 4. Stream radio from the internet > 5. Handle extensive tagging > 6. Best audio quality, without the need to add external DAC > > A multi-format player in the same box would be a plus (but that's > probably going to be a different task entirely) - the reason for this is > that I have no SACD or DVD-A playback capabilities at the moment and > will need it soon. My Meridian CD player is now 15 plus years old and > has already had a replacement laser, for which there are now no > replacements available. Therefore, I am envisaging a new player will > soon be needed and that needs to play the aforementioned disc types. > And, of course, it needs to be of a similar quality to that of the > Meridian - which rules out a lot of devices that one can find on, for > example, Amazon. That might seem restrictive as a place to look for new > Hi-Fi but as far as I can tell there are only two Hi-Fi stores of any > note in Kent. > > I'm waffling..........
For your disc playing requirements I suggest the Oppo player thingy. This also has an input for usb (I don't know the playback limitations with regard to bits). If you were to source an O2 Joggler this will connect directly to the Oppo and give the larger than a Touch screen that may be sufficient for your needs. For just streaming I suggest a 'pi with piCorePlayer into iQaudio) dac, this can be controlled by the Joggler running SqueezePlay. LMS can be installed on the Joggler or elsewhere (plenty of server options) As for a, 'one player does it all', I don't know if that exists, and if it does, how much of a Curate's egg it might be. Enjoy your search. atb Ronnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Man in a van's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43627 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102086 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
