Enginemusic;554787 Wrote: > I understand how a dumb client works, I just question why something as > basic as a volume control needs communication with a remote server > thousands of miles away. It's simply daft. It's controlling an > amplifier circuit centimetres away!
Apparently you don't, for again it is NOT a volume control, it is a multi-input request device. When one turns the big knob, one is NOT turning a variable pot in the audio path. One is producing a request that must go to a server to become a command to be sent back to the dumb device to become a change in digital volume level. It is NOT analog volume control. Your example again goes back to hardware volume control and not software volume control. As long as you keep thinking analog where a variable pot is physically in the audio path between the input and the amplifier, you will keep making the wrong conclusion. Maybe this analog volume control example will help. If the Boom is off and you spin the Knob in the up volume direction for a minute, is the Boom at maximum volume when you turn it on? The answer is no it is not, because there is no physical connection to a volume pot. Again the Boom is a dumb device dependent on a server. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: Second Boom Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77468 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
