Howard Passman;299338 Wrote: > BTW, my first "PC" was an IBM 360. Let's see how old everyone is :-) For UK viewers, who remembers the BBC micro? 32 Kb of RAM. Wow! At Uni I prgrammed an ICL mainframe with punched cards. . . .
But . . . the SB architecture is it's own worst enemy. The openness, the flexibility are its strengths. But it relies on so many things outside its own control. Wireless networks, any networks can screw up big time. My Duet and SB3 sometimes need total resets (but not often). I'm happy - kind of - to cope with this, but Joe Public would never stand for it. This is cutting edge (if not bleeding edge) technology, and not ready for general consumption IMO. SB is the best thing that's happened to my listening since I can store all those nasty little silver discs and just play vinyl and FLACS. But there's a few more steps needed for the non-tech. -- morris_minor Living Room: SB3/SBC > Sonifex RB DAC1 > Musical Fidelity X10v3 > Sudgen Headmaster > Sennheiser HD 595 Kitchen: SBR > Sony Minisystem [via Homeplug ethernet] Michell Gyrodec SE DC [Tecnoarm, Goldring 1042] > Graham Slee Era V Gold Pioneer DV565 universal player, Yamaha DSPAX750SE, Kef Cresta 30 (fronts), Tannoy Profile 633 (rears) Mac Mini [1.83GHz, 2Gb], Iomega Minimax 500Gb, LaCie Ethernet BigDisk 1TB, D-Link DSL604+, M-Audio Transit USB, Audiolab 8000A, Monitor Audio M2s ------------------------------------------------------------------------ morris_minor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13950 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47302 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
