[slim] Re: Looks like Apple are joining the party
Muhahahahaha. I knew ditching the Squeezeboxes and going the Mac way was a good idea. Waiting in anticipation for the iTV - exactly what I wanted. A silent Front Row front end. -- rhyzome rhyzome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6370 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27325 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??
If you don't already own a TV capable of accepting a PC input $400 would get a decent 20 monitor retail - cheaper with rebates, etc. Seen Front Row on 20 monitor (heck, even a 17 monitor)? Blows the snot out of SB visibility. My Fireface is mounted around the side of the rack towards the rear as I don't have to see / otherwise manipulate it. The Mini is plenty eye-pleasing on the rack. As I said if you've never tried it, you won't know. -- rhyzome rhyzome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6370 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25771 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??
If you don't already own a TV capable of accepting a PC input $400 would get a decent 20 monitor retail - cheaper with rebates, etc. Seen Front Row on 20 monitor (heck, even a 17 monitor)? Blows the snot out of SB visibility / navigability (sic) My Fireface is mounted around the side of the rack towards the rear as I don't have to see / otherwise manipulate it. The Mini is plenty eye-pleasing on the rack - and it ships with a remote. I'm guessing too as regards the Transporter's ultimate audio abilities but jeez, you guys don't even have any sort of assumption base to even start from. As I said if you've never tried it, you won't know I guess. -- rhyzome rhyzome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6370 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25771 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??
radish Wrote: Well in that case I misunderstood, but that also negates any price difference- the Fireface 800 is $1500 on it's own. The 400 is $1000. I overspecced. -- rhyzome rhyzome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6370 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25771 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??
I think the SB's plus point was its low price and audioserver bang for the buck given the features. If you start making it an audiophile component from the get go though, the glaring problems with navigation, etc start becoming exposed. The Wheel MAY address some of those issues, but the encoder doesn't fully compensate for the lack of a 10-foot display. I don't doubt the Transporter will work for some, but equally I think a Mac Mini or a silenced MITX machine + RME Fireface 400 will give equally good audio results combined with a higher degree of flexibility - for significantly less money, if the Transporter is $1999. -- rhyzome rhyzome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6370 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25771 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??
radish Wrote: Not a chance. I'm not an audiophile by any stretch of the imagination, but... just... no. Any reason why? The output from my Mini + Fireface (800) goes into the dCS Elgar Plus, clocked by the Verona. It gives generally as good a result as I've ever heard out of a transport (including the Verdi La Scala sitting on the top of my stack). -- rhyzome rhyzome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6370 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25771 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??
Mark Lanctot Wrote: Hmm? I can easily read the display from 15 feet away (and I wear glasses) plus it is a multiline display (2 lines). Also with the new 2-display Transporter, you may be able to stretch text over both displays, which would make the text width at least as wide as you'd get with a 15 monitor, even a 17 monitor. Take a helluva lot less real estate and power than a PC too, and even quieter than a low noise fan. The two displays are intersected by the knob. You may be able to stretch it, but then you may not. As for 15 17 monitors or whatever, there's this thing called a TV, Plasma or in my case Bravia in most people's living rooms. And that's what my Mini is hooked up to. I wonder how many of you actually have experience of comparing the two. You know, I sweated for ages trying to silence my PC's. It was rapidly coming to the situation where I was about to throw in the towel. Then I got the Mac Mini and I realised I'd been completely wasting my time with PC's. Mini-ITX solutions I'm told are exceptionally silenceably these days, and these systems run on 2.5 discs (which don't generally whine or whirr much). Noise is not an issue with these ultra silent computers. -- rhyzome rhyzome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6370 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25771 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??
radish Wrote: Not a chance. I'm not an audiophile by any stretch of the imagination, but... just... no. Any reason why? The output from my Mini + Fireface (800) goes into the dCS Elgar Plus, clocked by the Verona. It gives generally as good a result as I've ever heard out of a transport (including the Verdi La Scala sitting on the top of my stack. The Verdi is better but not definitively so). Mark Lanctot Wrote: Hmm? I can easily read the display from 15 feet away (and I wear glasses) plus it is a multiline display (2 lines). Also with the new 2-display Transporter, you may be able to stretch text over both displays, which would make the text width at least as wide as you'd get with a 15 monitor, even a 17 monitor. Take a helluva lot less real estate and power than a PC too, and even quieter than a low noise fan. The two displays are intersected by the knob. You may be able to stretch it, but then you may not. 2 lines is not multiline. It's 2 lines. As for 15 17 monitors or whatever, there's this thing called a TV in most people's living rooms, or in my case an ultra-quiet LCD panel. That's what my Mini is hooked up to and I don't have to squint at all to look at that. I wonder how many of you actually have experience of comparing the two. You know, I sweated for ages trying to silence my PC's. It was rapidly coming to the situation where I was about to throw in the towel. Then I got the Mac Mini and I realised I'd been completely wasting my time with PC's. Mini-ITX solutions I'm told are exceptionally silenceably these days, and many of these systems (including the Mini) run on 2.5 discs (which don't generally whine or whirr much). Noise is generally not an issue with these ultra silent computers. It pays to try lots of things as I've done before you pass judgement. The Transporter is I'm sure a very good option but it really needs more in terms of display and navigation (main and remote) capabilities, and as I said it seems overpriced compared to PC/pro soundcard-based solutions which offer I would say superior flexibility and as I said, audio ability on a par with the Transporter, especially if you're clocking/DACing for maximum results. I would imagine I'm part of the target market for the Transporter based on my audio expenditure at least. But -I- see better solutions. -- rhyzome rhyzome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6370 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25771 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Loading Slimserver on QNAPs
Thanks. Use the Macs for music playback in any case but just curious in case I blow the dust off the Squeezeboxen since I'm planning to have several TS-101's. -- rhyzome rhyzome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6370 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25398 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Loading Slimserver on QNAPs
If you didn't buy it preconfigured. Don't use my Squeezeboxes much these days but since I'm getting hold of a couple of QNAPs I thought it might be a cool thing to do. Search on this site seems to be ed. I understand that there's a trick to loading Slimserver on the QNAPs. What functionality of the original firmware do you lose y putting Slimserver on, and is it actually possible for a Linux-loather to stick Slimserver onto one of these boxes? -- rhyzome rhyzome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6370 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25398 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
