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Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-02-20 Thread chill


JohnSwenson wrote: 
> I have a $1200 DAC at home from a company known for very good sound at
> reasonable cost, this new output is probably going to sound
> significantly better. That is the level I am aiming at and I think it's
> quite acahievable at a very low cost.

John, a couple of feature enquiries:

- do you think that a future option for Gen1 might be an add on board
that allows external digital inputs to this DAC, so we can treat this
player as our system DAC as well?
- will the chip's programmable DSP allow us to implement some kind of
tone control/graphic equaliser and maybe even a full blown room
correction filter?



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Re: [slim] Noticed small difference between radio and touch

2013-02-20 Thread lrossouw


On the radio\touch go to the settings menu.  You can change all this to
be exactly as you want it.



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Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-02-20 Thread w3wilkes

As I'm sure is true with others here, I've stayed pretty quiet just
watching this thread develop. It is pretty exiting to me. I would want
this device to be no more than just a high quality player. I've been
pretty happy with my Duet controllers and receivers and if I had the
ability to replace a Duet receiver with a higher quality unit it would
be very tempting on my main stereo. I had bought into the server client
type platform back with the Soundblaster Wireless Music system back in
late 2003 (very similar to the Duet). I was able to keep mine running
through Vista 32bit, but it was a nogo when I went to a 64 bit OS. Just
so happened that close to the time I went 64 bit on my music server I
found the Duet which was almost like the same thing only the display on
the remote was graphic rather than text.

Hopefully this part won't be too controversial. If you give us a DAC
better than the Touch I'd see that as a GREAT upgrade, as I use the
analog out on my receivers since that's what I need for my old Kenwood
(feeds ADS L-810 speakers) and Pioneer (feeds some home built speakers).
I quit playing the "audiophile" game over 30 years ago. The kids still
like to come over and listen to this old school gear. Once I got my
stereos so I liked the sound my changes were adding the newer
transports. Went through 2 turntables (Went from home built with this
tonearm;
http://soundup.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3020%3Aempire-16-pro-transcription-turntable-tonearm-ae-98p&catid=20%3Atonearms&Itemid=92
to a Micro Seiki with a Ortofon cartridge), some different cassette
decks (finally settled on a JVC that sounded as good as the Nakamachi
Dragon to me) and finally a couple of CD players (the reason for the
change was the first one broke). Since you're already going to give all
flavors of digital out it should keep the new wave "audiophiles" happy,
give us old timers the "cheap" built in DAC. After all, bits is bits. My
own personal belief system is that bits only come in two flavors, you
don't get "strong, weak, loud, quiet, harsh, hard or soft" bits, there
either 1's or 0's, nothing more or less.

With that said I'm voting with Erland as one of the 99%'ers. Yes, I read
the "audiophile" section of these forums and must say that I do get the
occasional good laugh from some of the stuff I read over there.

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