I have spent some time reading posts in this forum and its been very interesting. Time then to participate !
I am looking for a substitute for my CD which decided to leave this earth a while back. I am also tired of the CD medium itself and strongly believe that doing away with it is the way to go. So in my quest I stumbled upon this little thing, the SqueezeBox, and from what I can see it looks like the one for me! I have some questions though and most have probably been asked before but I was never one to claim to be unique :) Like I said my CD died but I should add that I don't have any speakers either ATM or an amp, the reason for this is I just moved from another country and couldn't be arsed to bring things like that with me. They were not good anyway. So basically I don't have nothing ATM, I am a white canvas for you people to paint your master pieces on :) First question: I know what kind of speakers I want already ( "Handmade" Swedish speakers made by Stridbeck ) but about the amp I just need some suggestions. This is the Audiophiles I know I know but I am not spending a fortune on this stuff. So cheap and very good .. shouldn't be that hard for you right ? :) I mean that is what the SB is after all ... or so they say. Must be others. I will use lossless format in one way or another and the SB as transport. Now I have read X number or threads about the SQ of the SB as is, and with mods, with external Dac's etc and AFAIK there is not a unified answer. Not surprisingly since it is all very subjective. But given my setup, which will consist of decent speakers ( to me anyway ) and a probably not so decent amp ( to you ) would I benefit at all from a Dac or is that just me craving the extra gear ? Squeezebox --> Amp --> Speakers Squeezebox --> Dac --> Amp --> Speakers I don't care AT ALL about how these things look as I will hide them anyway. I am not anal about sound quality, meaning I will not run around with db instruments measuring sound waves ... I am however anal ENOUGH to want as good a sound as I can get, for the money I can afford. So question 2: Would you advice me to just buy the SB first and try it out and wait with external Dac's until AFTER I have tried it in my system ? All logic tells me this is the thing to do but logic and me, well, we haven't spoken much lately. I have this one time chance to get a Lavry DA10 for a very good price and should I decide later I hate it or whatever I am certain I can sell it and even make money off of it. Thoughts ? Finally let me apologize for such a horrific first post. They say first impressions last so whatever goofy impression I made with this post I guess I only have myself to blame. Anyway .. here's to music !!! -- thingfish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thingfish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9126 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30823 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
