Re: [slim] Logitech should resurrect squeezebox

2017-08-16 Thread Mnyb
mherger wrote: > > Even if this is a niche . For example ROON is trying to get piece of > the > > pie by selling software . With a kind of licensing model for,hardware > > they have no hardware of their own . > > I thought this would come up. But then that software is Roon's business. > > They'

Re: [slim] Logitech should resurrect squeezebox

2017-08-16 Thread Michael Herger
Even if this is a niche . For example ROON is trying to get piece of the pie by selling software . With a kind of licensing model for,hardware they have no hardware of their own . I thought this would come up. But then that software is Roon's business. They're small and obviously happy to serve

Re: [slim] Logitech should resurrect squeezebox

2017-08-16 Thread Mnyb
Even if this is a niche . For example ROON is trying to get piece of the pie by selling software . With a kind of licensing model for,hardware they have no hardware of their own . Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J Meridi

Re: [slim] Logitech should resurrect squeezebox

2017-08-16 Thread dasmueller
As many have said it ain't happening. Still, I offer my thanks to Logitech in general and to Michael specifically for maintaining these forums and LMS. As others have said the plug and play w no system/software maintenance is where most are today. Me, I still prefer the "old School" collecting, t

Re: [slim] Logitech should resurrect squeezebox

2017-08-16 Thread Antoniop
d6jg wrote: > All this doesn't quite explain how you can still buy a brand new > Transporter SE on eBay and that new stocks of same keep appearing. Are > Logitech still manufacturing but only Transporters? Not only transporters are appearing. I missed a UE radio sale on amazon.fr some months ago

Re: [slim] Classic FM [UK] - connects at 128, drops to 48

2017-08-16 Thread bpa
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Re: [slim] Logitech should resurrect squeezebox

2017-08-16 Thread iPhone
. This topic will always be discussed until one of two things happen, Squeezeboxen start showing up at Best Buy or Logitech goes out of business! Are either of those two things going to happen anytime soon, I don't think so, so the topic will live on. Logitech should be commended daily for their

Re: [slim] Logitech should resurrect squeezebox

2017-08-16 Thread drmatt
Those are "new, old stock" transporters. There is no manufacturing for a decade or so. LMS was always too hard for people, Sonos fixed that and appeals to the Apple buying industrial design generation to boot, despite being broadly mediocre for various reasons. Logitech had a ground breaking prod

Re: [slim] Logitech should resurrect squeezebox

2017-08-16 Thread d6jg
toby10 wrote: > Exactly. Those and numerous other reasons are why it is a dead product. > *WE* all love them and *WE* get/use the SB advantages. But the mass > market could care less, and for very understandable reasons. In a world > of streaming compressed music on a mobile device listened to

Re: [slim] Logitech should resurrect squeezebox

2017-08-16 Thread toby10
Antoniop wrote: > Well, I am not sure. I don't know much these products, but SONOS is sold > everywhere and Bose have also a similar (?) product line. > Anyway, people say they're very easy to use, which is not the case with > LMS. > LMS is too complicated for old people and also for most of the

Re: [slim] Logitech should resurrect squeezebox

2017-08-16 Thread Michael Herger
I think Logitech could, and maybe should, launch another product line as squeezeboxes devices, but I don't think they will, unless they change their marketing strategy, which is to sell small devices, easy to use, not too expensive, for the young. Like... the UE Boom family of products?... IMHO

Re: [slim] Logitech should resurrect squeezebox

2017-08-16 Thread Antoniop
toby10 wrote: > > It's dead as a viable consumer product offering. Well, I am not sure. I don't know much these products, but SONOS is sold everywhere and Bose have also a similar (?) product line. Anyway, people say they're very easy to use, which is not the case with LMS. LMS is too complicat