Recoveryone wrote:
> I would not call it Highend from an audio stand point, .
:) back to the ol' definition... From what I understand its a fine
design. Actively driven with digital x-overs, powerful class D-amp and
good driver specs. I wouldnt diregard it bearing in mind its inherent
limitation
Nick_G wrote:
> a triumph of style over substance.
Jeez, I don't get you guys here. B&Os style is (part of) its substance.
If its not your cup of tea, move on! If its some kind of ideological or
political or other issue, I suggest you take it in a forum where such
topics are discussed.
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The 2.04 update is really cool - thanks!
iPeng vs. Controllere. iPeng - no doubt if its going to be a dedicated
device.
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SlimChances wrote:
> I really can't fath
> om why people would want to destroy the experience of being away from
> civilization and in nature by bringing technology with them. I realize
> most of you don't understand my view point and say it can just be turned
> off.
>
Maybe I don't understand,
I'm with you with the tech. nature tracking :) But,
ModelCitizen wrote:
>
> * To identify mushrooms
>
sounds risky to me, unless you already really well know your way around
mushrooms?
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The problem of disturbance free forest walks is often easily solved
through a combination sparse antenna coverage and lousy transceivers in
modern smart phones :)
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> When I want to get away from technology I want to get away from it not
> just turn it off
Sure - each to his/her own :) But thats different from how I read your
previous posts which [to me] conveyed that the devices inherently and on
their own are a hindrance to other experi
But wether or not to act on the incoming or initiate outgoing is, when
all comes to all, *always* your choice.
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Future proof consumer electronics investments are perhaps best thought
of as a lottery - it happens that they pay dividends as well as not.
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Yes, I think I'm with you. Though I think you are overlooking one
important aspect the Squeezebox-brand [had...].
Namely a unique status as a high-fidelity, high-quality, feature rich
(almost "complete"), very reasonably priced streaming solution. Even
with todays plethora of offerings, the comp
Also Im not reading you clear when you on one hand say you understand
Logitech for leaving a product one can get for free, and on the other
hand say that there *is* a market (for Sonos and such) to take over?
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Oh, and several other things such that your home is left without a
music-system when your phone=you is not available for music-playback :)
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As far as Apple TV vs. SB goes, here are some personal specifics,
divided into stuff one is good at and the other one not, and vice versa.
Pro AE:
- Fits perfectly into an Apple ecosystem including their cloud-services.
- Streaming all kinds of sounds, videos and pictures from all kinds of
Appl
iTunes Match supports ALAC.
Airplay is LAN-only (for all intents and purposes)
All Apple devices (Macs/iDevice/Apple TV/AE) all have digital outs (in
some form).
Streaming e.g. ALAC with Airplay and using digital outs *should* be
bitperfect.
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Yeah - not saying the lyrics nor the implementation is impossible to
improve - its just so much better than it ever was. pippin has explained
why the former is hard and for the latter I can see a point in that
folks playing e.g. mostly instrumental music [classical etc] wouldn't
have any use of i
garym: glad to see I'm not alone - at least in this thread. Lyrics is
among my most used features - I've used it prior to the 2.0 upgrade,
which makes it orders of magnitudes more useful. I'd claim its one of
the few features which are truly new and only possible to implement in
apps such as iPen
qirex wrote:
> the scenario of unlocking my phone, switching apps and then being able
> to do those basic operations is unacceptable.
>
Thats not necessary when Airplaying using an iOS device. Volume is
accessible through the hardware controls and basic controls accessible
on the lock-screen (
pippin wrote:
> You need to enable "preserve connection" since you have to keep the App
> running or you can't control it.
>
Suggestion: Could the "preserve connection" setting be reworked such
that the setting only takes effect if the player (status) is on? If the
player is off, it would make
pippin wrote:
> Now that we've got lock-screen access that might no longer be required.
>
Are the lock-screen controls supposed to work when using iPeng as a
remote only [and not player]? They don't for me (and I thought due to
the system-control integration being kind of a hack...) The
album/t
Hi,
been playing a bit with 2.0 and its really good!
I really, really, really appreciate the new integrated lyrics feature!
Also the way playback controls are now integrated in the browser part of
iPeng is brilliant - very functional indeed. The design is also improved
IMO - making the improve
With Airplay you will be able to relay/stream anything your Mac or
iDevice can play. For what it does, I think its pretty good.
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>
> But since nobody asked, yet, it doesn't seem as important with the
> redesign, it used to be one of the most commonly asked questions in the
> past...
>
I know, I know - must be coverflow...? Would still be a sweet addition
:)
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What are the walls and ceiling made of? Even though you've covered the
80% of the floor, the rooms seems rather "naked" - a lot of hard
surfaces. Try locating where the echoing is worst - clap hands and move
about and install damping accordingly. If thats not enough, you have a
good ceiling height
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andyg;690510 Wrote:
> And now you see why we cannot include it...
Yes of course its not happening officially and with Shairport. But I
know far from enough to understand why it so definitely could not be
made/negotiated/licensed to happen in a future SB device?
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ay-only, but at the same time users
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selling DACs with a wireless
interface to the computer sound-driver. Personally I hope this (at the
moment specialized market/feature) will drive the development of a
server/client architecture for sound-systems at the O
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oking the fact that many are using the very iPods, iPhones, and
iPads to control LMS...
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mfaine, I think it would be good if there was such a feature - it adds
value to the whole experience. However I think time has caught up with
the concept - 4 years ago I would have said YES. Nowadays there are too
many other options for this to be worthwhile, I think.
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One thing to try is resetting the Xilinx. Dona search for the procedure
- its something like holding 1 on the remote while plugging the device
in. Fixed a similar problem with my SB3 once.
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There is also a factory reset procedure which ones solved a similar
problem for me. Cant remember the procedure, but I found it on the
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for the few who are using this thing called Internet radio :)
Guess I'll have to turn to the Apple forums advocating Flac-support in
iOS/OSX
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benefit of adding native ALAC! Seems much more useful, although I
realize dropping support is bound to generate complaints for those
(few???) who depend on them
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ot;.
If you're never heard it before now, its because you haven't noticed.
It will run the degaussing-procedure from time to time - e.g. always on
startup (but also at other times, I believe. Normally, it shouldn't do
it
Btw. what version are you running? There where some improvements
introduced at some point. But its a long time ago, so unless you are
running a very old version, you probably have the fix. It can't be 100%
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I'd say it *is* fixed - but not user settable though. Parts of the delay
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ericj;586159 Wrote:
>
> I suspect it uses airplay to stream, and is of limited quality, BUT, I
> suspect for many the convenience factor will be significant.
>
I understood that they where using digital only in original resolution?
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peterw;576232 Wrote:
> ...they're currently working on some user interface code improvements
> that target Boom/Classic/Transporter
Interestring. Do you have a few more details on what these improvements
are?
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them properly stored and easily accessible at home. Although most
information can be found on the interweb, its just so much nicer to sit
with the physical bookle
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I think I see the point - but I'm not sure how big of a difference it
makes as of today. Squeezebox'es, and in particular the server, uses
dedicated API's for accessing services such as Last.fm, Rhapsody,
Pandora, etc.
And the issues of A/V sync would still be there.
Its somewhat possible to stream any sound the computer produces through
its soundcard using the waveinput plugin. But you generally won't get
A/V sync for things such as Youtube.
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me amount of bass as the Orbit -
which on the other hand, at high volumes becomes extremely distorted in
the bass.
Anyway. I'm ready for the road :)
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Thanks. I'm sure these are much better soundq-wise, than what I ended
up with (see next post).
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tp://www.reghardware.com/2010/06/28/ten_essential_travel_speakers/page5.html).
> And it's cheap (£15).
Looks quite promising. Most reviews seeem very favourable - conidering
price and size. I'll have a gloser look at them - thanks.
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> very cool!
Indeed
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m is finding some
which sound reasonable. I suspect the sound-q to vary greatly among
models/brands.
I hope someone has some specific suggestions which I could check out.
I'll take a tour locally, but its also likely that buying online could
get me a better deal - provided I know what to
for the 1. time -
expectations where probably too high. Though I would be happy with some
powered speakers with the sound-q of the Boom if they where
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trade the rather advanced features of the Radio for something with
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n while away. When/if iPeng can be used
as a player I'll simply switch over. Shouldn't have any implications as
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steinarb;554537 Wrote:
> >>>>> bhaagensen forums.slimdevices.com>:
>
> > Afaik they use radiotime and their index. If you find anything
> missing
> > or wrong you can visit www.radiotime.com and contact them directly.
>
> Thanx. I couldn't
Afaik they use radiotime and their index. If you find anything missing
or wrong you can visit www.radiotime.com and contact them directly.
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Its probably because wav by default is streamed as flac. To change: Go
to Settings > Advanced > Filetypes and look up the setting for WAV.
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ed that they can't fix it.
But serisouly. Did they offer you a 50% discount on a new product
because they couldn't fix a product that is out of warranty??? That
sounds like too good a deal to be true...
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d and iPhone spring to mind :) Don't know whether its an
option, but it would be cool if pippin and the other iPhone/Android-guys
could be given resources to fully implement this.
I have a dream, and this is it :)
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Will you file an enhancement request in bugzilla. Otherwise I'll do it.
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- see the
development forum. That said, I do have a version running, which I think
I downloaded from the nightly builds when the builds where working.
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JeffHart;518299 Wrote:
> After a pause she looked at the both of us and said "But aren't they
> fattening??
She must also have memories of the incidence: two foreigners in white
shirts and ties working for a company making pastries :)
pski;518008 Wrote:
> At any rate, sync in itself wouldn't prompt me to pay double for Sonos.
> p
Me netiher. I'm just saying I sympathise with the POV. Especially after
trying this on Sonos and getting used to iPeng.
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Its possible. Search the forums for 'musicip'. Its not trivial to set up
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hich is very good at this - but of course requires
iPhone/Touch. But you're right. Before I got this I almost never used
synch - too cumbersome (and I don't really need it that bad)
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ething like this instead of only relying on his own
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n a non-trivial way.
The show is available online - albeit in danish of course...
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d/could not
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t said, the reason he had only
those two on show, was that they are the best available offers of that
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Mnyb: That seems to have done the job. Thanks. I should have thought of
this; seems almost like the unsolvable problems are the best ones,
because those are the ones the infamous 'xilnix'-reset often takes care
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So 7.5 embedded aka. TinySC will not support SLIMp3 nor SB1. The
wiki-page says that 7.5 embedded will eventually be merged with the
mainline code. Does that imply that SLIMp3/SB1 support will be dropped
as of that version?
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ng for
the sake of tinkering. But there are plenty offerings for those
already.
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or the general public - at least not to an extent where it makes sense
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s the area they work in.
>
As far as Naim goes, I think you are wrong in some of those assumption.
Have you heard of NaimNet?
http://www.naimnet.com/
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forseeable future. If you want a solution to the jitter problem by
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transport side I have no idea, but this must
be accounted for if you want to follow these arguments. Anyway, we need
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appear, for all intents and purposes, to be
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ASenna04;508451 Wrote:
> bhaagensen,
>
> You make important points here. If the DAC does indeed render all
> reasonable quality digital sources equal, then why would Naim market to
> sell it with the new CDX2-2 (with S/PDIF) when a CD5XS would be
> sufficient?
>
> AS
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wever it
turns out to be in line with my own observation, I'm really eager to
investigate how this can happen. The Naim DAC is, I would say, "by
design" rather than "by clever algorithms" jitter free (as far as spdif
introduc
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