325xi;192046 Wrote: > Perhaps I'm missing something, but I simply don't get all this desire to > hook your system into the laptop directly. Well, if you were headphoner > then... but otherwise?
Using the laptop, I can listen to a number of sources, not just SlimServer. For example my laptop has a digital TV tuner that also receives radio channels and I can also let my family play back their iTunes libraries from all machines instead of having to have it all on one PC. Also, I much prefer the visual interface of iTunes for album browsing - as I said I have already written my own Java controller for slim that gives me some of that back, but it still falls way short. My laptop is very quiet, so if I can find a way to remotely control it, then I'm all set. The real question is audio quality - I prefer my Copland CD player to the SB+XDACV3 I have now, it has a more natural presentation and bigger soundstage for example, so I need to find out if the Benchmark can give me that too. Otherwise, I shall wait for a DAC that gets close to the Copland. -- CardinalFang ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34132 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
