sander wrote: > Heh, funny about this thread as I'm in the same predicament. 3 SB3s, one > won't start, the other has a bad/malfunctioning dac, and the last plays > for about 5 minutes before dying. I found a friendly EE at my job who's > going to help me diagnose the problems, but it does beg the question is > it worth it. Just for grins, I checked ebay and there is someone > liquidating a whole bunch of unsold Transporters SEs for $450, so there > are options... > > I'm less of an audiophile so the sound quality is less of an issue, my > feeling would be (as long as you're staying the squeezebox ecosystem) > the greatest existential threat to the SB3 is a change in the wifi > standards which they support. It is a pain to keep the remotes close > opposite say a touch, but they have the old school aesthetic and they > are iconic to me of the squeezebox heyday. > > My next step would be something akin to an echo, a rasberrypi, ideally > with an oss voice controller (e.g. mycroft or snips), a temperature > sensor for the room and some colored lights as a kind of catch all for > different rooms. > > While I like the SB3, my favorite will always be the boom so hopefully > those will last the longest.
We seem to be of the same mind here. I can't comment on the sound quality, save to say that my 20 year old powered Acoustic Research bookshelf speakers make enough noise for my needs. Having ripped all my CDs to MP3 and stored them on an extrenal SSD connected to an old netbook running Win/Xp, I use the sychronisation feature to fill the house with the same sounds when we have people in, but I more often than not simply use it for radio streaming from the BBCiplayer. The remote is not used much because I use the web interface on my laptop, desktop, or cellphone to just pick one of my 10 Radio favourites. As I said it's a perfect interface for my needs, but it's getting harder to keep it current with available technology without replacing things. Have you tried to buy speakers recently? Go into Best Buy and the teenage expert may have never heard of a speaker without Bluetooth! ;-) My question is simply about effort and cost. Should I be continuing on with LMS and my SB3s or should I join the masses and go with Itunes and a new Bluetooth speaker? I'm unlikley to go with a Pi rig, as I don't want to tinker. Any thoughts appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sb42's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10692 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110260 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
