TheLastMan wrote: > My experience: > > Bought our first Squeezebox Duet in 2008 for the living room, connected > to my Naim amp. This prompted me to buy a NAS (Synology DS107) to run > LMS (then SqueezeboxServer) and learn a whole lot about Linux and > networking! > Bought our second Squeezebox Duet in 2009 for the kitchen. It became > the default for listening to music in the house, the kids especially > liked the Spotify integration. > > 10 years later and the main music listening done in the house seems to > be via mobile phones and portable bluetooth speakers or headphones. > Nobody other than me seems to be bothered about stereo! > > The Duet in the living room is still connected, but I am the only one > that listens to it. We have some active speakers in the kitchen that > have Bluetooth and an RCA aux input that I use for a Raspberry Pi > running PiCorePlayer. Again, I am the only one who uses the SB, > everybody else uses the Bluetooth. They don't seem to be bothered that > the connections are so flaky and their phone notification sounds are > amplified. Most serious listening seems to be done privately on their > telephones. > > My twins are now 18 and about to go off to uni, and my youngest at 16 > seems to spend most of his evenings out with friends or in his room > doing homework. Because of this Mrs TLM has decided, just before our > 20th anniversary and my 60th birthday, that this is the right time to > dispense with her husband. > > :-( > > She has decided that she does not want to spend her retirement years > with me and plans to buy a dog for company instead while she swipes > Tinder. I am being shipped off to a small one bed apartment during a 6 > month "trial separation". All reasonably amicable - but with great > reluctance and sadness on my part. We get on OK, no rows, but she is > just bored and thinks that getting rid of me and looking for a new bloke > will make life exciting again! She is almost certainly right - but maybe > more exciting in the Chinese sense than the fun time she is expecting. > > Anyway, she is the one with all the cash, so will be buying me out of > the joint property (assuming the trial is "successful"). I will then > have enough to buy either a 2 bed flat if I decide to stay in London, or > a small house if I move out of town a bit. She says she will be very > glad to get rid of all my ugly hi-fi. Any replacement for Mrs TLM is > going to need to be more accepting of my audio setup. In fact a shared > appreciation of music and its reproduction is going to be a big factor > in choosing Mrs TLM 2.0! > > I will take the "plug ugly" Linn LP12, Naim amps and B&W speakers and > leave her with a nice shiny plastic £30 Sony portable speaker for the > living room. If I am feeling generous I might run to a £100 or so for > Bose or UE box. > > Wish me luck...
Thats shit. Good luck VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi2+DAC & SB3 -> Onkyo CRN755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - Pi2+DAC ->ToppingTP21 ->AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV)* - SB Touch ->Sherwood AVR ->Mordaunt Short M10s Everything controlled by iPeng ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110742
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