Fifer Wrote: > I think you can opt for a pony instead of the free SB3. But I agree with > Mark. It's a music player, not a Swiss Army knife.
My statement was more about how well Slim Devices could do a media player compared to everyone else and there dog, there general architecture and UI are streets ahead of the pack. :-P On the audio front it's a shame there's no FireWire Audio i/o or even HDMI Audio, AES isn't that common in home audio gear. But back to the topic ;), it certainly looks the part and compared to the SB3 it's a lot nicer design wise. I never really understood why they went from the minimalistic SB2 form with only the display (the bit you need to see) visible, to the functionally identical SB3 but with a dirty great big bit of silver plastic taking up half the front (other then to give them somewhere to stick a logo so to answer what must a common question from Squeezebox virgins on there first sighting, "Oh Wow! What's that thing?" :). The SB2 is the only AV component that I don't hide away in the rack now, it makes an excellent clock and weather/info display when not in use and a perfect UI for music playback when it is in use... in fact to be honest if I did have the Transporter, chances are I'd rack mount it and just slave the SB2 to it for a display. -- ailean ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ailean's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25810 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
