> My wife suggested that we replace the Radio Alarm in the bedroom for > a Slim driven device (quite a step forward for a technophobe!).
I'll say up front that what we do won't satisfy everyone, but it works well for us. We use our old SB-1 as an alarm clock, but we wake up to NPR news rather than to music. We have an inexpensive pair of computer speakers plugged into the headphone jack; the speakers are designed to be powered speakers, but they aren't plugged in to power. I discovered quite by accident that the squeezebox puts out enough power to drive the speakers even though they're not plugged in. It's not high quality sound, but it's better than the clock radio we used before. The squeezebox is also connected to an amplifier and, through the amplifier, to a decent stereo speaker in the ceiling of the bathroom and to other speakers. When we listen to music, and usually after we're awake and still listening to the news, we turn on the amplifier. (I'm assuming, of course, that driving the computer speakers without plugging them into power isn't damaging the squeezebox, but I'm just unsure enough after describing what we do that I'm adding this paragraph to encourage others who know more than I do to speak up if I'm wrong about that.) -- John _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
