Setup went very smooth, connected first time and i had it playing within 2 mins.
Having already had a Jive remote, i was most interested in sound testing between SB3 and SBr. The fact that the players can be synced made A-B testing very easy. It was simply a case plugging them in to the same AMP, choosing a track then hitting sync (with the volume at the same level). All i did then was flick between inputs on the AMP. The kit i tested with was; Cambridge Audio 640 Azur AMP, Mission 701 Speakers and decent quality after market phono cables. Not exactly audiophile, but a good medium end system to test them with, and type that many people with use their SB3's and SBr's with. Anyway, audiophiles will be using there own DAC's anyway. I played a number of cd rips (using EAC and FLAC) from various genres from R&B, Break Beat to rock. Flicking between SB3 and SBr was not what i had fully expected - i did not expect them to sound so much the same. Thought they would be close in quality, but not so similar in sound properties. I listened for over an hour and there are remarkably similar, but i did notice a slight difference after a while - i felt that the SB3 sounded a little warmer at times and the SBr was a touch brighter. I really could not hear any difference between the bass, midrange and treble and instruments equality separated and represented. If i was forced to say which i preferred, i would probably say SBr (Duet). But only by a baby's bum hair, and i might just be that it new to me. What are other peoples thoughts on this? Have i missed something? As for the updated Controller - hard to say really. Need to test signal strength and battery usage properly, but i can say the scroll wheel is much better. One other thing, due to lack of parts i have to use my old dock and battery - will we be getting new docks and bats, and if not, can we get them through spares? -- autopilot SLIMSERVER:[/B] 7.0 APLHA (WINDOWS XP) + ALIENBBC, SLIMSCROBBLER & LAST.FM. *AMP:* CAMBRIDGE AUDIO 640A (LIVING ROOM) / DENON MD30 (BEDROOM). *SPEAKERS:* MISSION 701'S (LIVING ROOM) / KEF CRESTA 1'S (BEDROOM). *REMOTE:* T-MOBILE MDA VARIO / HARMONY 525 (IR) / *BETA TESTING JIVE REMOTE. [B]Clients:* 1 Squeezebox 3 + Softsqueeze. 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/domrevans/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43193 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jive
