Only very recently, I'd been using SB1. I loved it, of course, but my wife was never all that enamoured because it was prine to drop-outs - particularly when playing FLAC format. When playing MP3s, the higher the bitrate the higher the frequency of drop-outs. My server isn't all that powerful, but it *should* be powerful enough to cope with it (I'm using a 1.4GHz CPU, with 512MB RAM, using ethernet connection - old certainly, but should be enough to run SS).
Anyway - I recently bought an SB3 and I've got to say that it's an amazing improvement over the SB1. I've not yet noticed any drop-outs -at all- in many hours of playback. Where previously all I'd need to do would be to make a couple of changes to the playlist through the web interface to cause a drop-out, I've not encountered any of that yet. As per a previous post a couple of weeks back, I'm still a bit put-off by the Logitech logo (especially since I -love- the analogue VU meters so a constanly looking at the SB) but the performance and reliability is such an improvement that I'm learning to deal with my brand snobbery ;) :) If anyone has an SB1 and gets an occassional drop-out that they find irritating or off-putting, trust me: upgrade your SB - the difference is quite astounding! Even my wife is back on board again now :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7000 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36655 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
