Re: [slim] High-end, low-cost hardware player

2015-02-02 Thread skip_pack
Today's introduction of the Raspberry Pi 2 makes your points more interesting. The HifiBerry digi could serve well as an interim solution using my current dac. I'm not too concerned about a video interface on the player as I have been happy with the phone/wifi choices. Skip

Re: [slim] High-end, low-cost hardware player

2015-02-01 Thread skip_pack
I have been waiting for a number of years for a large (affordable) leap in performance from my SB3 Opus DAC combination. Initially it looked like it would be a USB to I2S/SPDIF device that was in the works at Twisted Pear. That didn't come to fruition as (I suspect) new possibilities made each

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2015-01-30 Thread skip_pack
dasmueller wrote: Yesterday the project was not dead. Today it is. I had followed this for quite a long time. I am disappointed on several levels. Maybe I am just naïve. It would seem that the most provocative characteristic of these revelations is the name -Community Squeeze-. I would hope

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2015-01-29 Thread skip_pack
This is great news. I have followed since the inception of Community Squeeze and feared this path to a very high quality LMS/SBS-based system was not getting closer. Since the project has likely progressed a bit more in the quiet (from an observer's perspective) period, it seems like this might