bprager Wrote: > 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 audiophiles 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.
I think that a lot of your display concerns could be better addressed with a graphical remote. You would no longer need to be in front of the SB to read what's playing. As I mentioned before, a Wi-Fi/IR/RF SB Universal remote control would allow you to control not only the SB, but all your AV components. A color LCD on the remote would resolve the distance readibility issues of the VFD that you mentioned. With a remote with graphical interface the Classical Music naming issues go away. You can get album art, lirics or any other album/song info you can think of. Not to mention one's friends Wao! factor when they hear you sing along with Pavoratti in Italian using phonetic lirics being fed to the remote. I'd also like to get thumb wheel a la Ipod to scroll a little more naturaly throught my music library. It can also be implemented to support some of the plug-ins to allow you to create dynamic playlists, display the weather... etc, etc. I want a Wi-Fi/IR/RF SB Universal remote to be the "center piece" of my AV system as it would be only component that'd need to interact from anywhere I sit in my one bedroom NYC apartment. I'm sure it would make the place seem bigger than it really is... I can already see myself sitting in the room with my white throne as I build my new playlist. -- tamanaco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tamanaco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4620 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25771 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
