Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Sound and performance quality of SB Radio compared to SB Boom

2023-01-02 Thread Goodsounds
For the purchased-used Boom, I have the power cord in a small coil and the Boom placed on top of it. That, together with a request to my wife to not move or bump it, seems to work for now. I will see if using a small bit of masking tape connecting the cord to the back of the device will keep it f

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Sound and performance quality of SB Radio compared to SB Boom

2023-01-01 Thread Goodsounds
Thank you both for the responses. From your experiences I think I'll get one. Replacing/repairing/etc. is well beyond my abilities or interest - either something works adequately and I can use it, or if it no longer does, it gets tossed. Just one question, Jim mentions a Wifi issue. Can you giv

[SlimDevices: Radio] Sound and performance quality of SB Radio compared to SB Boom

2022-12-31 Thread Goodsounds
I'm a longtime owner of SB devices. I bought a used Boom on Ebay for a bedroom in a second home. The power socket seems to be loose and the slightest movement of the unit breaks the power connection and it turns off. I will try to tape the cord in place to make it more physically stable. I'm thi

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] New router stops radio working

2011-12-22 Thread Goodsounds
Are you're trying a Wifi connection? Maybe the new router is set to a different channel than you used before and the problem is interference. Try changing the channel. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Pro

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] What happened to Bloomberg?

2011-09-06 Thread Goodsounds
y. Don't view it as a conspiracy against your listening preference. Maybe someone here works in the radio industry and can comment. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/memb

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Station blocked by broadcaster

2011-08-15 Thread Goodsounds
. Got it, I missed the nuance, it was a BS comment. Easy enough to understand why they push listeners to portals that give them more revenue opportunities. It's a business, not a public service. -- Goodsounds Goodsound

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Station blocked by broadcaster

2011-08-15 Thread Goodsounds
sinine and ultimately unnecessarily expensive. If you find a company that you think is more focused or successful in conducting its business than its peers, there's a solution: be a capitalist and buy that stock! --

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Shortwave Stations

2011-06-01 Thread Goodsounds
e tactile experience of operating the radio, rather than the content? Today, internet "broadcasting" brings clear content (in most cases) in a mechanical, uninteresting way which I would guess doesn't compare to the old days? -- Goodsounds ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Reciveing Podcasts

2011-05-31 Thread Goodsounds
Why not just use a feed/podcast aggregator program, or itunes, to automatically download what you want? Set it up to place the downloads in folders under your SBS music file branch and the episodes will be there and ready to listen to when you want to listen. -- Goodsounds

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Why no tuner??

2011-01-31 Thread Goodsounds
I do, and my DSL connection handles its highest quality stream easily. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14201 View this thread: http://

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Why no tuner??

2011-01-30 Thread Goodsounds
competition will keep unlimited download usage available for reasonable cost. It's sure kept the basic service cost down. It's not worth the bother to me, but I know people who switch providers every 12 m

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Why no tuner??

2011-01-30 Thread Goodsounds
usage (reasonable as compared to the use by other, similar customers). Any carrier trying to do that would lose its subscribers to competitors not doing so. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Why no tuner??

2011-01-29 Thread Goodsounds
work. But I don't think having a tuner would be worth the time or effort for the domestic market. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14201 View th

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Questions before buying

2010-11-29 Thread Goodsounds
opposite. If you try one, buy it from a business that accepts returns in case the first one you get doesn't work and you want to try a different one. You might also be able to try a higher gain antenna for your wireless router, sometimes that can give enough boost to mak

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] child-proofing the presets/settings

2010-11-03 Thread Goodsounds
ming. I'd guess that people like many of our parents are not part of the target market, and for good reason. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?useri

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] SqueezeBox Radio battery kit avalible

2010-02-08 Thread Goodsounds
engineers to STILL not have finished this project with suitable performance and safety specs, how could a roll-your-own project be expected to be adequate? -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevi

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Squeezebox Radio and Best Buy

2009-11-23 Thread Goodsounds
, your wish may come true. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14201 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71634 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] I live in San Francisco - Where can I go buy one NOW?

2009-10-23 Thread Goodsounds
as much abuse as the East Bay folks do. BUT, so long as everybody is happy where they are, and have the right equipment to listen to the music they like, that's all that matters. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Pro

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio in the bathroom?

2009-10-18 Thread Goodsounds
other things in the room. Including on/in any electronic devices, and the upshot of that will likely be damage. Just a matter of when, not if. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/membe

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Ship date?

2009-10-12 Thread Goodsounds
. The obligation to collect a state's sales tax is triggered by the selling entity having "operations" within a given state, not where it's based. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimd

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Best alarm clock ever!!!

2009-09-26 Thread Goodsounds
iable than your and my crappy networks, patched together with products and technology made by others and out of the company's control. In any system, reliability comes from redundancy. If oversleeping is not an option, relying on just one device (no matter what kind) involves ri

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Where is the broadcast FM?

2009-09-06 Thread Goodsounds
pfarrell;455737 Wrote: > Goodsounds wrote: > > pfarrell;455714 Wrote: > >> OTA radio is dead.. .. > > > > people who listen to broadcast radio dwarfs the number who listen > over > > the internet. Maybe I'm wrong about that? > > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Where is the broadcast FM?

2009-09-06 Thread Goodsounds
o. You know, the ones who aren't texting, on the phone, putting on make-up, drinking coffee and reading the paper at the same time. Don't tell them radio is dead. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http