Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Need Repair for Dead Transporter

2012-06-21 Thread Hofstede
I think the problem with Logitech (as with a lot of companies these days) is that they don't do repairs anymore, they don't even have employees with the skills for performing repairs. If an item shows a defect in the warranty period it is easier for them to just replace it. If you want a repair I

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Open Letter to Music Pirates from NPR

2012-06-21 Thread JonWill
magiccarpetride wrote: Same as the death of telegram industry had no negative effect on people's ability to communicate long distance. Not necessarily true - most of the telegraph industries morphed into telephone companies - and are now looking at multiple communication media. There are

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the absolute minimum processing power required to run Inguz on a PC?

2012-06-21 Thread slate
I do not know anything about Inguz... sorry. But there is almost no difference on E-350 and E450 when talking about CPU power slate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30502 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the absolute minimum processing power required to run Inguz on a PC?

2012-06-21 Thread Soulkeeper
IME, Inguz can serve one Squeezebox on a single core 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 (with 10-20% CPU cycles to spare IIRC). If you have more Squeezeboxen, you need to multiply the processing power accordingly. Soulkeeper's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Open Letter to Music Pirates from NPR

2012-06-21 Thread Soulkeeper
JonWill wrote: despite the rise of social media a media company acts as an arbiter of quality Perhaps, but as long as social media does that job way better than the media companies themselves do it (which IMO is the case), what does it matter?

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Open Letter to Music Pirates from NPR

2012-06-21 Thread ralphpnj
JonWill wrote: I think the piracy debate is different when it comes to the exploitation of musicians - and that is where the original article is great... J The public, acting as pirates, would have to illegally upload/download every song ever recorded millions of times to come anywhere

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Can anyone recommend a Cambridge Audio DacMagic...

2012-06-21 Thread AlexM
I have used an SBT with a Dac Magic 100 with Triode's EDO plug-in, and I have to say that the SQ was actually very good - clear and refined, with good sound-staging and a refined treble. The Bass wasn't 'thudding' but was clear and with good representation of instrument textures, albeit seeming

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Need Repair for Dead Transporter

2012-06-21 Thread cliveb
Rob Stone wrote: I am very sorry we no longer support the Transporter. So, there you have it, if you buy a Transporter SE, once it goes out of warranty you are out of luck, it appears. Yes but, yes but, yes but Logitech are still selling the TP SE in the US. Therefore there must be TP

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Open Letter to Music Pirates from NPR

2012-06-21 Thread cliveb
JonWill wrote: a media company acts as an arbiter of quality - filtering out the good from the dross for the mainstream That's funny, I always got the impression that the music industry's primary focus was to convince the mainstream that the dross is worth buying. Since the dross always

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Open Letter to Music Pirates from NPR

2012-06-21 Thread JonWill
Trust me there's a whole lot more dross out there that they don't touch - MySpace and Soundcloud are now letting people have an outlet! It's analgous to publishing. There are a lot of novels under people's beds. Publishers chose the best (or those they can make money out of...). Historically

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Need Repair for Dead Transporter

2012-06-21 Thread callesoroe
Rob Stone wrote: Sadly this is true. I requested to speak to a supervisor (denied), then engineering (denied). I am very sorry we no longer support the Transporter. So, there you have it, if you buy a Transporter SE, once it goes out of warranty you are out of luck, it appears. Just to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Need Repair for Dead Transporter

2012-06-21 Thread Rob Stone
paulster wrote: Complain to the BBB. They'll forward your complaint to Logitech within 2 days, who then have 14 days to respond in writing. You're not asking for a repair under warranty, i.e. free of charge, but it's reasonable to expect a manufacturer to be able to repair a product that