MacFrugal;603528 Wrote: > I was wondering if there will be any new Squeezebox products or updates > coming out this year? Something like a Boom 2 with bigger speakers or a > larger display?
They always keep their roadmap very close to their chest until a product is almost ready for market. What we don't know is how successful the Squeezebox line is and whether Logitech consider it financially viable to extend the range further. It is a pretty "niche" product so that could be a major limiting factor. The obvious move would be to extend the use of SqueezeOS (used in the Radio and Touch) across the range together with more powerful processors and DACs. This permits the use of the colour and touch screens as well as "native" support for a broader range of file types and at higher bit-rates which will reduce the need for the SqueezeBox Server to transcode and/or down-sample. Obvious developments would be: 1. Boom v2 with Radio-like colour screen 2. Duet v2 with more capable Receiver with the processing power of the Touch and an improved Controller with a bigger screen. I doubt they would want to make the Boom bigger, part of its attraction is its portability and big sound from a small device. Longer shots would be: 3. A SqueezeBox badged "server" - a "headless" mini PC or NAS offering full support for the SB clients "out of the box". I have been hoping for this ever since I bought my Duet in 2008! 4. A high quality amplified, but speaker-less, player more in the line of the products supplied by Sonos, but with the Touch screen. These last two would be a major departure from their current ethos which is to supply the simple network client hardware and let the open source and add-on community do the rest. Then again the Boom and Radio were a departure from this so who knows? What do others think? -- TheLastMan Matt *SqueezeBoxes:* SB Duet (Controller + two receivers) *Server:* Synology Diskstation 107+ NAS (with firmware 2.3-1157) running Squeezebox Server 7.5.1 on Synology Package Manager *Network:* Netgear DG834GT ADSL modem/router, 2 x Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 as access points *Livingroom:* Receiver into Naim 42/110 amp, B&W CM2 speakers *Kitchen:* Receiver into Denon DM37 mini-system, B&W 686 speakers *Study:* Linn LP12, Naim 72/Hi-cap/Headline. LPs ripped using Behringer UCA202 USB into Windows XP PC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84894 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
