The Revo Blik Radiostation uses Frontier Silicon's combined radio FM/DAB/DAB+/WIFI chipset (http://www.frontier-silicon.com/media/releases/07/1212-revoblik.htm) to be able to bring this unit into the mainstream. At £149 its not cheap but comparable and cheaper than units with less functionality (think Tivoli Audio, Vita R1, none of which even have WIFI!). The sound quality is very good for such a compact unit and as I said in my last post, there basically isn't another unit out there at any price that does what this does. It is designed totally as a mainstream device so I've no plans to start playing Tetris on this any time soon, but it does exactly what it says on the tin and there are some interesting plans for it's development.
If you need a capable, future-proofed alarm clock radio, this comes highly recommended :D On the Squeezebox development, unless I'm missing something, isn't the new "Fauxnos" sticking very closely to the original principals behind Slimserver/Squeezecentre, by creating an open API (Jive) platform to enable people to develop the concept further? Sonos is completely closed and proprietary. They haven't stopped making the SB3, but provided people with the ability to hide the unit that delivers the sound to the amp, if that is the set-up they desire, while introducing a powerful handheld device to control both SB3's and Duets. They're not copying Sonos at all, they are making the Squeezebox range more accessible and flexible. -- claypole ------------------------------------------------------------------------ claypole's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6695 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40983
_______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
