I joined the Logitech era in September 2009 with two Duets.
Although clearly some start-up issues - today it works like a dream.
And since then the set-up has been supplemented with a Radio which
wakes up my wife every morning with her favorite internet radio
station.
My use cases are world
Asenath83;681266 Wrote:
And now they have extended the server to be a general media server,
which most of us already have built into the OS of our PC or NAS or
gaming console or... I fail to see why I would need that. I bet most of
us could have thought of more pressing matters to sovlve but
azinck3;676334 Wrote:
Haha, it appears at the ripe old age of 29 I'm now an old fart -- give
me back my VFDs!! :). I guess I'm outvoted so far.
Must be a quirk of our age indeed, I bought my Classic shortly after it
disappeared from the Logitech webshop and still love the display as
FredFredrickson
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I use my duet daily.
AOL!
I also use my touch daily.
Don't have one.
The radio is a great player to have during the summer for patio bbq,
but during the winter the thing just sits there.
AOL for the
Okay, I know I'm getting old but I just can't keep up with these
internet acronyms.
I looked up AOL and found;
America Online, Inc.
Art of Living
Angel of Light
Adventure of Link (video game; sequel to The Legend of Zelda)
Application Object Library
Army of Light (Starwars Galaxies
CharlieG;680994 Wrote:
I give up. What are you tying to say?
Amen Out Loud?
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CharlieG charlieg.55pwgn1325515...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com:
I give up. What are you trying to say?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=aol+jargondb
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CharlieG;681078 Wrote:
Funny, when I want to say me too I generally just say me too :-)
me too!
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+1 is also nice, isn't it? :-)
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steinarb;681068 Wrote:
CharlieG CharlieG.55pwgn1325515201 (AT) no-mx (DOT)
forums.slimdevices.com:
I give up. What are you trying to say?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=aol+jargondb
gosh, never in a million years would I have guessed this.
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CharlieG;681078 Wrote:
Funny, when I want to say me too I generally just say me too :-)
Or if one has to bring it into the txt msg realm, a simple me2
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Hope that the touch is not the last stop.
Would like to see an upgraded version of the Touch; better processor,
able to handle higher resolution files.
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jazzcat jazzcat.54n6hb1323708...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com:
As a newcomer to the SB, I knew nothing about the era of Slim Devices
before Logitech. I will say this however
I'm not overwhelmed and frustrated by the relative complexity of the
device, nor do I find it a little fussy. I
raaurora;676547 Wrote:
My Duet is almost 5 years old
That's a good trick, since the Duet was 'released in March 2008'
(http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Hardware_comparison). Even my
hardware beta Duets are only about 4 years old. Nevertheless, good to
hear that you haven't had any issues.
must say that 90% of the problems I have had with my Duet setup, I
have been able to fix with a router re-boot.
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My duet is solid, except for one receiver which is just at the edge of
my wireless area. Sometimes I have to reboot my router.
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w3wilkes;676567 Wrote:
From this thread I guess I'm one of the few Duet fans that think this is
the ultimate SB.
What I thought was awesome about the duet was the ability to expand the
system with headless players for little cost. Especially now with iOS
and android apps to act as
maggior;676659 Wrote:
What I thought was awesome about the duet was the ability to expand the
system with headless players for little cost. Especially now with iOS
and android apps to act as contolers, this is really cool.
It's sad that they discontinued that.
Yes, that is definitely an
The receivers were at $150 when I bought my second. I wish I had grabbed
a few more.
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My journey started nearly 4 years ago so has been all Logitech for me, I
came to know about SB players in early 2008 and bought a Duet on a
holiday to the states in that summer (it was a lot cheaper!)
Duet - Initially I had problems, mainly due to not having a dedicated
server and losing
azinck3;676662 Wrote:
Yes, that is definitely an appealing aspect of the Duet architecture.
Unfortunately the receivers never got cheap enough. Dollar for dollar
I'd always choose a used SB2 over a receiver.
My frame of reference at the time was $300 for an SB3, so the $150 for
a receiver
it turned to be very interesting discussion. observing initial concerns
and current stage I would agree with one of posts above that Logitech
does great job pushing product around the globe. position and market
share could be bigger if we would not have some challenges with the
software at the
When it comes to looks, SB3 is the champion of the Squeezeboxen so far.
I hope a next generation Touch will arrive, looking more like the SB3.
With some aluminium on front, a glass-like screen much broader than 4:3
format, and with the option of simple, clean, large, scrolling text for
the now
azinck3;676334 Wrote:
haha, it appears at the ripe old age of 29 i'm now an old fart -- give
me back my vfds!! :). I guess i'm outvoted so far.
I actually think the sb3's have, and will, age better than the
lcd-based players. The lcd-based stuff looks like many other plasticky
The Duet was purchased to be pretty much the centre of my musical
universe at home (300GB library, 3+ tracks), along with Booms in
bedroom kitchen.
And it pretty much still is - I love it.
Most of my music Lame VBR preset extreme encoded (average bitrate 256)
mp3, so I probably wouldn't be
AndreE;676185 Wrote:
Just 5 years and a bit less than 2 month Logitech has acquired Slim
Devices
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/172/2763
It was interesting discussion triggered after this renouncement with a
lot of glory and concerns
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821
I came on board about a year or so before logictech took over. For me
the SB3 was a eye opening event, as I had suffered with much more
inferior products. The only issuse I have ever had is with the
software, and it may have been as simple as just recommending low and
high point comp to run it.
azinck3;676334 Wrote:
Haha, it appears at the ripe old age of 29 I'm now an old fart -- give
me back my VFDs!! :). I guess I'm outvoted so far.
It will be a sad day when my SB3 dies. One of the things I cannot
replicate on the Touch is the RSS feeds. Since I have it next to my
bed I am
My Duet is almost 5 years old and almost zero issues even with all the
server upgrades. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.
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ChrisNY;676545 Wrote:
It will be a sad day when my SB3 dies. One of the things I cannot
replicate on the Touch is the RSS feeds. Since I have it next to my
bed I am able to catch up on lots of newsfeeds as I head off to sleep,
which is a calming way to end the day. And it doesn't require
From this thread I guess I'm one of the few Duet fans that think this is
the ultimate SB. The biggest problem I've ever had was last spring when
the Avast 6 upgrade along with SB 7.5.3 and W7 sp1 threw me a curve
ball with a firewall issue. Other than that I'd say my Duets have both
performed
Just 5 years and a bit less than 2 month Logitech has acquired Slim
Devices
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/172/2763
It was interesting discussion triggered after this renouncement with a
lot of glory and concerns
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821
What do you think about
Personally I think the Touch, Radio, and Duet were all mistakes. I
consider the Boom the last of the true Squeezeboxen. All the
LCD-screen devices are hard to read, sluggish to operate, and introduce
a level of interface fussiness that was wonderfully missing in all the
VFD-based Squeezeboxes.
I agree that the Duet was a mistake. The Touch and the Radio seem to
work very well. (I've got a Duet too, and I'm satisfied with it, but
from a support perspective, it's got to be a disaster.)
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death may die.-
As a newcomer to the SB, I knew nothing about the era of Slim Devices
before Logitech. I will say this however
I'm not overwhelmed and frustrated by the relative complexity of the
device, nor do I find it a little fussy. I think it works very
intuitively. The ol' jazzcat had no trouble with
jazzcat;676234 Wrote:
As the devices got less Slim it seems reliability went downwhile
my Touch and Radio are brand new and just starting their working lives,
I don't expect them to be unreliable (and certainly not like the
Aluratek IR I had that was a short-lived, piece of garbage.) My
The duet definitely had some growing pains. I wasn't exactly an early
adoptor and I had a lot of trouble setting it up. 6 months or so
later, my brother (much less techy than me) bought one and had no
trouble at all. So it did get better. At the time, it was really
cool. By today's
To be fair to Logitech, it must be hard to please everyone - even I find
that one week I have one opinion on what kind of player / message they
should push, and then that changes a few weeks later. People claim the
duet is a disaster and I am inclined to agree except that since I got
an ipad and
maggior;676246 Wrote:
The duet definitely had some growing pains. I wasn't exactly an early
adoptor and I had a lot of trouble setting it up. 6 months or so
later, my brother (much less techy than me) bought one and had no
trouble at all. So it did get better. At the time, it was really
yeomanspc;676249 Wrote:
Is it me, or have Logitech meandered on strategy? Suddenly they appear
to be thinning the range down - either we are about to see the lot drop
off a cliff, or some new boxes and direction have to come after
Christmas (maybe at CES?).
I fear the worst.
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azinck3;676251 Wrote:
I fear the worst.
Cheer up guys! Why would Andy, Michael and maybe others keep pushing
out nightlies if the was nothing in the pipeline? :)
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1xSB3 - 1xDuet - 1xBoom - 1xRadio - 1xTouch
The Duet was my first Squeezebox -- and so while I can understand the
bad name it has earned (somewhat rightfully, I admit) I am very
grateful for that product line as it introduced me to the world of SB.
It's easy to bash the Duet now, but keep in mind that it was launched
only 6 months after
I use my duet daily. I also use my touch daily. The radio is a great
player to have during the summer for patio bbq, but during the winter
the thing just sits there.
I have nothing to say but good things regarding the receivers. The
controller is a little clunky for anything beyond random-mix or
azinck3;676205 Wrote:
Personally I think the Touch, Radio, and Duet were all mistakes. I
consider the Boom the last of the true Squeezeboxen. All the
LCD-screen devices are hard to read, sluggish to operate, and introduce
a level of interface fussiness that was wonderfully missing in all
cparker;676322 Wrote:
Disagree in part, the Duet sucked originally but got there in the end,
its now a very stable product.
The Touch is the only product that makes it easy to use a large music
collection, being able to spin through albums etc is brilliant compared
to scrolling line by
cparker;676322 Wrote:
The Touch is the only product that makes it easy to use a large music
collection, being able to spin through albums etc is brilliant compared
to scrolling line by line on a SB3!
Yeah, the VFD display players are looking outdated and would have long
ago lost their
Haha, it appears at the ripe old age of 29 I'm now an old fart -- give
me back my VFDs!! :). I guess I'm outvoted so far.
I actually think the SB3's have, and will, age better than the
LCD-based players. The LCD-based stuff looks like many other plasticky
computer gizmos and is already
azinck3;676334 Wrote:
I actually think the SB3's have, and will, age better than the
LCD-based players. The LCD-based stuff looks like many other plasticky
computer gizmos and is already starting to look a little old (relatively
small, low-res screens) whereas the SB3's have the metal
Don't get too sentimental about your SB3s if you haven't heard the
superior sound of a Touch through your sound system. If you're using an
external DAC, then I guess it's mostly a UI matter and not so
substantive a difference.
I'm still using my SB3s in other rooms, but I'll happily replace them
I now have 2 Touch in use one complete duet and one SB3 in storage and
one unopend Touch in it's box just in case.
One Radio and the only ip3k player in use is Boom, here I agree no
current player can replace boom.
SB3 is a design classic but I prefer the Touch .
using iPad, in my kitchen I
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