cliveb;147654 Wrote: > This is bang on the mark. The high-end audio marketplace is *extremely* > badge-sensitive, and the Transporter branded as a Logitech product will > not sell, period. >
You see IMHO this is just not true at all. The biggest audiophile community I am aware of is head-fi: the kind of place people will spend thousands of dollars on a set of headphones (take your pick on the brand), hundreds of dollars on a headphone amp, a thousand dollars on a Lavry black DAC, and 20 dollars on a Chaintech AV-710 sound card for their computer. Why? Because, when you mod it, the Chaintech produces bit-perfect output though it's digital out, and when you've got a good DAC that's all you need. The kind of people who would buy the transporter are the kind of people who frequent head-fi, and you know what? - they read the reviews. Sound quality is everything to audiophiles - especially computer audiophiles. Sometimes it needs to come from an esoteric brand high-end brand, but only because nobody else is doing it. If you can get the same thing for 20$ that other people are paying 500$ for, you're laughing all the way to the listening room. And you know what - who cares if it says *tech on it? You buy it to listen to, not read. Q -- Quicken ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quicken's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7592 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
