hi, I was very sad when one of my SB died because they are not easy to find even on eBay.
Then I started to explore a replacement with a Raspberry, Squeezelite and Hifiberry DAC. I am very pleased with the result: you lose display and remote, so you need pc or smartphone handy, which is not a problem for me. On the other side, you can have addons not possible with a SB: in my setup I added a USB thermometer to monitor my room temp (it's a country house I use on weekends) and bridged a wifi AP to the ethernet cable. The sound is just great, the DAC has superior specs than the original SB. Total cost around 100E, with Raspy 2 and DAC Pro. town: Musical Fidelity Dr.Thomas, Preamp II, Infinity 7K, Squeezebox Classic (2), Squeezebox Radio, Ubuntu 12.4 LTS server country: Musical Fidelity A-5, Infinity Renaissance 90, Musical Fidelity A120, Sonus Faber Concertino, Squeezebox Classic (2), SB Touch, Ubuntu 12.4 LTS server ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gian's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6702 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104503 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
