Labarum;429906 Wrote: > The small form PC has more electronics in it, yet costs less. Why?
More electronics? Do you mean a greater number of components? One individual component (a top-end CPU for example) could easily cost more than that whole PC, so the amount of 'electronics' is not a measure of anything. Personally, I think the Squeezebox is very well priced. If you look at HiFi equipment in general, good quality components have no real price ceiling. Some interconnects can cost more than a Squeezebox. Just because a device appears to do 'more' it doesn't necessarily do anything 'better'. Would you question the price of a high-performance sports car if you found a cheaper car that had electric windows and air-conditioning, if the high-performance car lacked those features? I use a cheap PC (built from scraps) for my SqueezeCenter server, and I thought I may as well make use of it as another music zone (using SqueezeSlave) since it's got sound output (the motherboard built-in sound device) and has to be switched on anyway, and using another device such as a Squeezebox Receiver is just a waste or electricity. When I played music on it, I realised how horible it sounded compared to my SB3. Sure the manufacturer managed to add sound to the board using very cheap electronics, but it's no use for anything much other than system beeps. When you're talking about using digital audio outputs (as I do on one of my SB3s), the argument changes slightly, since I wouldn't think that you're going to get anything different out of the SFF PC than an SB receiver, but then you're simply not using half the device you've bought (the DAC). Then again, the receiver is only £85. Comparing it to the SB3 (or Classic as it's now known), the SFF PC has no display (those displays are not cheap you know, and I think they're excellent) and no IR remote interface. -- rickwookie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rickwookie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6397 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64207
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