Well, there is no question that Logitech could return to this market, and I also think they should. However, since big names like Sonos, Denon, Yamaha, even Google...have already set up shop, it would probably be extremely hard of Logitech to actually achieve any market penetration.
I think the only way would be to go low-cost, and that's probably not in line with Logitech marketing goals. If I had to choose, I'd offer a range of simple devices, much like what I've currently built with LMS/Squeezelite and the RaspberryPi and Hifiberry boards. A standalone solution with built-in speakers would be one of the offerings of course, but I'd mainly focus on building three devices: 1) Squeezebox-DAC: A small aluminium cube, with built-in Ethernet, Wifi, a DAC Chip and analogue output. Connect this to active speakers 2) Squeezebox-Digi: A small aluminium cube, with built-in Ethernet, Wifi, and Spdif Optical and electric outputs. Connect this to external DAC or AVR 3) Squeezebox-Amp: A small aluminium cube, with buil-in Ethernet, Wifi and a small Class-D amp, that can directly drive a pair of passive speakers. If you make this with mostly off-the-shelf components, then you could have a really budget-friendly set that just might make it in this competitive market... ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CommanderROR's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59408 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104369 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
