I had my SBT delivered about three weeks ago but, apart from checking the contents of the box, I did not touch it until a couple of days ago. However, it has proved completely simple to set up, with the only issue being clearing the USB-stick before use (I did this after reading several threads here and on the Logitech forums). I also decided to format the 64GB stick as FAT32 for the simplest set-up (I used the fat32format free utility).
I currently only have about 1000 tracks on the memory-stick (38 artists in the usual album-artist/album/track layout - totalling approx 25GB) all in FLAC format (level 5 comp), and my initial impressions are extremely positive. The stick is a SanDisk Ultra 64GB rated at 15 MB/s read speed (which is 100x I believe), so it is reasonably quick but definitely nothing special. The initial scan and set-up seemed to take no more than about 3 minutes, although I confess I didn't time it very accurately as I was expecting it to take longer. All scrolling around the files seem absolutely quick enough, so I can only think that this is a completely usable set-up. I may try formatting the stick as NTFS, for more efficient space utilisation, but I am a bit concerned about extra processor loading; on the other hand, everything is so quick currently that I probably needn't worry. Sound quality seems good as well, I am currently using the Toslink output into a, rather old, Cambridge DacMagic and it sounds just fine, certainly as good as the CD transport into the same Dac, but I tried it using the RCA outputs direct into the amp and it was fine that way too. So, basically, I am a very happy bunny, and beginning to think of digitising some more LPs over this winter, a tedious process. The only issue now is whether I can use the SBT for classical music which needs a different folder layout, and does NOT want to be catalogued the same way as pop/rock/folk/jazz etc. But so far, so very good, the performance is just fine, and there is always the option of getting a faster, and bigger, memory-stick if more files slow it down later, but I would guess that I could more than double the amount of music on there with no significant impact; but that is a guess. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arthurb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56956 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96141 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
