bklaas Wrote: > Though I've been a huge Slim fan for years now, I gotta be honest, I'm > deflated. SqueezeBoomBox-- I'd preorder it today. Affordable SB4 with > onboard "knob"--that at least makes my immediate wish list. But an > audiophile product at that price point? Unless I get one gratis, count > me way, way, way out. #!/ben Well... it all depends on how it sounds, really.
Fancy replacement power supplies and mods, plus one stock SB3 as parts, don't add up to that much less than this box, and it's an inconvenient pain in the behind to do all the separate ordering and trans-shipping -- not to mention that the cramped quarters and tight board design of the existing little SBs reportedly set some limits on how good the resulting device can possibly sound. For me, it all comes down to the execution. If Sean and chums have indeed gotten this thing really right, I'll need to start saving my pennies -- even though a lot of their effort has apparently gone into the D/A and analog section, and I'm primarily interested in the cleanest AES/EBU or S/PDIF (kudos for the apparent BNCs, dudes!) digital output I can get my hands on. You see, I've drunk heavily of the SlimServer Kool-Aid, and believe that one's music archive really needs to be stored on normal computer hardware, for ease of expanding storage and because tested backup strategies exist, not in some proprietary box made by an audio company. It then comes down to just the best possible interface for getting the music from the network into the stereo. If they've managed a real improvement in that interface's audiophilic qualities, they've got my interest. Oh, and the commercial-building background-sound market is used to paying this sort of price for a tough, high-quality device in this formfactor -- look at some of the Sirius/XM receivers for that niche. -- jbm0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jbm0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3949 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25771 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
