I have two Squeezeboxes. They are very, very nice, and will serve your needs perfectly. I haven't heard of the other devices, so you'll have to solicit other opinions on those, but the Squeezebox does everything you ask. And it has a very high-quality digital out with a very low 'jitter'. You're feeding good gear, so getting a good transport may be audibly better.
I'm not entirely sure that jitter actually matters, but a lot of people into high end audio are dead certain it's a big deal. If jitter is an issue for you, the Squeezebox is *extremely* good, better than even very expensive CD players. If you rip your music with a good program (like EAC), and store it losslessly, you'll be batting toe-to-toe with $1500+ CD players... plus you get all the convenience of electronic storage of your music library. The software to drive it has been improving steadily, and you can download and try it out completely for free. The Softsqueeze emulator is a near-perfect emulation of the hardware. It doesn't sound as good as the real thing, because the audio is mangulated by Windows as it always is, but it'll show you EXACTLY how the real thing will work. And you can keep using it after you have the real hardware... I routinely sync Softsqueeze with my hardware players, so that anywhere I go in the house, I have the same music. If you'll have a problem, it'll be with the software, which can still be a little cryptic. So try it out and see what you think. If you like it, you will love the real hardware. -- Malor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Malor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1961 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29774 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
