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..........
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