Human nature is a strange thing. Before I bought my wife her last Mercedes, a car buff friend insisted we drive a Honda before making up our minds. He felt the Accord coupe was a more modern, somewhat better car than the Mercedes coupe and would save us about $8000.
>From the test drive, I'll go as far as to say that the Honda completely impressed me. Still, we couldn't bring ourselves to buy it. Japanese cars are what we bought our daughter until she could afford to buy her own car. I know that Mercedes today is made by Chrysler, whose cars we also wouldn't buy, yet, the association doesn't bother me. Maybe because they're so different. Everyone here is already in the Slim Devices choir. To audiophiles in the outside world, if they know about the Squeezebox at all, its just like the Roku but doesn't get written about as much or its just like the Sonos but without the pretty remote control. Another one of those cheap IPod thingees for the home. Plus, aren't the good ones, like the McIntosh, servers anyway? So, you already have Volkswagon bringing out a go fast car and still calling it a Volkswagon rather than a Porsche. Can I sell my audiophile friends on that? Maybe some if they get it that this is something idiosyncratic and that I'm letting them in on a secret. But now I have to tell them that the little idiosyncratic company that other than Transporter makes inexpensive things is really owned by a huge slick company that makes all kinds of other inexpensive things they already own. I think that takes the mystique away. For non-audiophile friends and Squeezebox this won't be a problem. They think of their music systems as appliances anyway. But for the audiophiles who talk of their audio systems like they talk of fine wines, mechanical watches or art, this doesn't really work. For me, I'm already in the club. Unless Audio Research, Classe or Theta builds something similar, I'll probably buy a Transporter. Just please don't name it LogSqueeze. -- Harry G ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Harry G's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1165 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
