chill wrote: > I agree with both of these points. The Boom is an awesome little > player, with great sound out of the box and scope to tune it to your own > taste. And it goes surprisingly loud without distorting. A very > clear-sighted design which, as you say, is not matched by any of the > current portable speakers. At the time of the Boom's release, > everything looked very promising. In contrast I remember being > completely underwhelmed by the sound quality from the Radio - a bit > muddy out of the box, and no scope to tune the sound. Lovely form > factor, but the SQ was quite a surprise after the Boom. An updated Boom > with the Jive interface would have been perfect IMO. Since that's not > going to happen, I'm also making a bit of a collection of Booms, and > have a small stock of foam surrounds to repair the bass drivers as and > when necessary, and have experimented quite successfully with > eliminating the sticky surfaces by spray painting with matt lacquer > rubber paint. > > I have a friend with a Sonos system, and all I'll say is that the higher > cost doesn't guarantee a smoother experience or better sound quality!
That sticky surface is what I need to do next, but I'm a bit concerned that I might ruin the Boom even more. I have 8 of these :) LMS 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBoxOne, XBMC, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, JRiver 21, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, , Pi B3, B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Odroid-C2, Cubie2, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111136 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
