ralphpnj;685343 Wrote: > Thank you MCR & RG for your very sensible responses. As much as I may > regret saying it you are both right (I don't mean that I have anything > against either you being right, rather that I just don't like the fact > that the content of your statements is correct). > > Now let's have some fun and games: > > While several of the high end audio magazines have given Squeezebox > products very positive reviews I have begun to notice a pattern > emerging with respect to how the SB devices are used by the equipment > reviewers. I've read several reviews of related equipment where the > reviewer states something along the lines (I'm paraphrasing here) "I > love my SB Touch and use it to stream background from my favorite > internet radio station". What you never read is something along the > lines of "I love my SB Touch, which I have connected to my XYZ DAC, so > much that I sold my ABC CD player and the Touch is now my main > source." > > What I predict is going to happen at some point with all these music > streamers from traditional high end audio manufacturers hitting the > market is that more than one reviewer will state "I love the (insert > high end manufacturer name here) music streamer, which I have connected > to my XYZ DAC, so much that I sold my CD player and the (insert high end > manufacturer name here) music streamer is now my main source." > > Anyone care to make a little friendly wager?
Unless my memory is really going, I recall that when I bought my first SB product (the Duet) that was two years ago. At that time, there was little else on the market that competed, functionally. Maybe one or two early digital streaming devices, but certainly not much more than that. In my perception, the whole higher-end digital music hardware market has gone from 0-60 in that time frame. And, yep, I'm seeing more and more of those kinds of those statements. And, to the extent that one believes that the audio mags and reviewers are mostly there to sell whatever the highest priced, hottest products are, then I believe we'll be seeing even more this, particularly with the likes of the T & A, Bryston, Bricasti, and dCS putting out higher and higher priced offerings. So, if you're in the camp that says that stuff only gets noticed, reviewed and talked about very positively if it's made by a "name" company with an accompanying high price to go with it, then I absolutely would say that, within a year (and I've seen the beginnings already) you'll be seeing more and more people saying the CD, as a medium, is dying or dead, streaming audio players are the "only" way to go, and that they're "as least as good as analog". I still have one of them thar CD player thangs, but it hasn't seen a CD in many, many months. Any CD I buy (and I do still buy them) is immediately ripped onto the Vortexbox and then sent to the basement archive to live in darkness for the rest of its days. -- rgro Rg System information ------------------------ Main: PS Audio Quintet > Vortexbox > Touch (wired) via optical > Rega DAC > LFD LE IV Signature amp > VA Mozart Grands > REL Acoustics R305 sub. Home Theatre: Duet/SBR (Wired) > Pioneer VSX 919 > Energy Take 5 Classic 5.1. SBS 7.7.1 r33751 on a Vortexbox Appliance, V 2.0. Touch w/Hardware V.5. Touch: FW 7.7.1 r9558. Duet: FW 7.7.1 r9557. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93111 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
