ralphpnj wrote:
As I stated in an earlier post I would replace my Transporter with a SB
Touch and a DAC with balanced outputs. To that end I just purchased a SB
Touch from someone on Audiogon for $325 - just being a good Boy Scout
and being prepared :)
Its a nice setup but my concern would
jhonsber...@msn.com wrote:
Its a nice setup but my concern would be music services ,current and in
the future. I want the ability to play them and only Spotify with
Triod's plugin would be accessible
when mysqueezebox is ended.
That's why I'm going with a headless mac mini and usb dac
ralphpnj wrote:
Correct - I don't use music services very much and have no interest in
using them until they offer lossless quality streaming otherwise I can
just listen to them using a laptop - the laptop's built in speakers are
perfect for listening to low bit rate streaming services.
ralphpnj wrote:
Correct - I don't use music services very much and have no interest in
using them until they offer lossless quality streaming otherwise I can
just listen to them using a laptop - the laptop's built in speakers are
perfect for listening to low bit rate streaming services.
jhonsber...@msn.com wrote:
Well if a lossless music service comes along(I think France has one) you
certainly won't be able to play it on the Touch.
Really? For most new services there has been a 3rd party app supporting
it pretty quickly.
Maybe Pono(Neil Young's upcoming music service)
jhonsber...@msn.com wrote:
For me ,it's just another reason for me to use my macmini direct to a
usb dac.
This is the Audiophile section of the forum and the macmini - USB DAC
seems to be the official audiophile way to play (NOT stream) digital
files (except for flac files) so I guess that it
Julf wrote:
Really? For most new services there has been a 3rd party app supporting
it pretty quickly.
But probably not.
The only 3rd party app i see is Triode's Spotify app . Are you saying
when mysqueezebox ends,there will be
developers chomping at the bit to develop 3rd party apps
ralphpnj wrote:
This is the Audiophile section of the forum and the macmini - USB DAC
seems to be the official audiophile way to play (NOT stream) digital
files (except for flac files) so I guess that it is the way to go
provided you don't mind:
1) iTunes and its terrible music library
jhonsber...@msn.com wrote:
The only 3rd party app i see is Triode's Spotify app.
I see at least BBC iplayer, NPR radio, Radio Paradise, Classic FM,
jazzFM, Quobuz. RTE, Wefunk, Youtube and bandcamp.
Are you saying when mysqueezebox ends,there will be developers chomping
at the bit to
Julf wrote:
I see at least BBC iplayer, NPR radio, Radio Paradise, Classic FM,
jazzFM, Quobuz. RTE, Wefunk, Youtube and bandcamp.
No idea, I don't use mysqueezebox and have everything I need supported
OK.
Most of those 3rd party apps you don't need .Cant you play Radio
Paradise
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jhonsber...@msn.com wrote:
Most of those 3rd party apps you don't need .Cant you play Radio
Paradise ,NPR,Clasic FM ,WEfunk by just adding the url to favorites?
Sure. The point is that there is a host of 3rd party apps.
To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this
ismarketing wrote:
http://www.sonore.us/SOtM1.html
Interesting. From the blurb on their website, it would appear that this
device is basically a Squeezebox with only USB digital output (and no
wireless AFAICT). Basically the audiophile digital-output only SB that
some on this forum have wished
cliveb wrote:
Interesting. From the blurb on their website, it would appear that this
device is basically a Squeezebox with only USB digital output (and no
wireless AFAICT). Basically the audiophile digital-output only SB that
some on this forum have wished for.
So: a third party has
garym wrote:
I think sonore has been building these for several years, well before
Touch was discontinued. Basically an audiophile vortexbox.
No, this one is the audiophile Touch, or because it has no display,
maybe more accurately the audiophile Duet Receiver. The audiophile
vortexbox is a
aubuti wrote:
No, this one is the audiophile Touch, or because it has no display,
maybe more accurately the audiophile Duet Receiver. The audiophile
vortexbox is a different product, costing US$2500 and up
http://www.sonore.us/SOtM2.html#2. Although I guess that one is a
Receiver and a
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