I love my various SB's and with some effort, have gotten a reasonable WAF. But the one factor that continues to be a problem is the display. As good as it is, (especially compared to other devices), it can't show long album/track names without scrolling. Yes, I know you can shrink the font, but then distance readability goes to hades quick. In classical music especially, many albums have the same starting words. Even now, you have to do a lot of scrolling to even pick out the right album and that factor more than anything has prevented me from making the SB's the centerpiece of my whole house system. When I saw the transporter, the first thing that struck me was - great! - one huge display that could easily display any album/track title known to man, at a highly readable font size. If you wanted VU meters (let's be honest - how many audiphiles will give a damn about cute graphics for the music), you could use part of the display just like the SB's. At least, you could have had the display for album/track searching, then during playback, use 1/2 of it (programable would have been nice) to show any info you want incl cute graphics if that's your thing. To split it into 2 displays I think was a major mistake, and missed an incredible opportunity to allow a level of interaction with a digital music library backend that would almost have equaled a seperate PC monitor display. At the audiophile level, its trivial to run the SB3 thru a better DAC, I've been doing it for years. But only Slim can improve the display. Until it does, this device doesn't improve enough beyond what I can put together right now.
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