Osamede wrote: > It's no gimmick: I two of these SB radios synced as a left+right pair in > my fairly large kitchen which has one side open to the living room - and > the sound quality is fairly good. Quite a step up from just having a > single SB Radio. I like this so much that I'm going to do this in the > bathroom as well. This is because you can get real stereo separation. On > the boom you have in theory stereo speakers but really there is not > enough separation between them, so you are getting "mono" sound in real > life. A couple of SB Radios 5-6 feet apart is genuine stereo. Only > lacking in the lower frequencies but really quite good still for > "radio"-ish usage eg listening to light music, podcasts, radio shows, > audiobooks etc. > > Serious listening is not going to happen on tiny speakers anyway. For > that you want a full size stereo and a place where you are sitting down > in the sweet spot. This is basically far beyond the real use case for > these devices. > > If only they had updated the Boom firmware to allow for the stereo > syncing! > > Another alternative would have been to produce a "Squeeze Subwoofer", > and extend the firmware and servers such that all the devices could the > allocated separate frequency ranges. This would have open up possibility > for not just better quality 2.1 but even complete 5.1 surround from a > music perspective (overkill of course, but just 2.1 would still be great > for casual use). Logitech makes subwoofers for its computer audio rigs, > so this would not have been a stretch for them at all. But they lack > imagination unfortunately. Even Sonos has a sub and they have just > released a soundbar. But I have a huge library and Sonos is simply not > an option at all. What a waste.
Yes, I have two radios also, with 1 set as left and 1 set as right, they sound pretty good. If we are going to discuss having extra channels, like an extra channel for a subwoofer, how about the extra channels needed for movie surround sound, 5.7 or 7.1? or whatever it is called. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bengaldave's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4605 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98118 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
