marc0716;368294 Wrote:
Qsonix is about the user experience and and the flawless interface.
Alright, despite your spamming this forum, I decided to take a look at
the User Experience Demo on the Qsonix website.
1. Functionally, the interface looks pretty good.
2. Aesthetically, the interface
I love the way that the Qsonix website talks about Uncompressed WAV for
the more discerning and then lossless as an implied lower quality
format...
I guess their dictionary must have an issue with confusing the words
discerning and gullible...
Anyway, the most discerning will always favour
I looked at their demo.
You can do all that with Slim for MUCH less money.
And now qsonix can use Itouch/phone as a remote..how
innovative and exclusive :-)
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jt25741;246624 Wrote:
Those Qsonix boxes just look (to me :)) like a frivolous waste of
money considering what we can do with Slim stuff for instance and a
cheap PC.
As a Qsonix end user i have to disagree with your opinion. While it is
a higher price point then what you mentioned it's
marc0716;368269 Wrote:
Given the ability to locate any song at any split second in my
collection of 2000+ CDs is amazing.
Marc, you're not convincing me...anyone can do that with iTunes,
Logitech, etc. Welcome to the computer age of hifi.
Darren
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darrenyeats
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marc0716;368269 Wrote:
Your cheap PC won't sound like my Qsonix
Why not? The server is irrelevant in a squeezebox setup and I wouldn't
be at all afraid to put a TP up against a Qsonix, or anything else.
Then I'd have $6K left to buy more music :)
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radish
marc0716;368269 Wrote:
... don't think im attacking you please. i'm just sharing my opinion.
No, you are not attacking people around here. You are attacking common
sense, logic, engineering knowledge and some more things, rapidly
degrading you own credibility in the process.
K
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darrenyeats;368277 Wrote:
Marc, you're not convincing me...anyone can do that with iTunes,
Logitech, etc. Welcome to the computer age of hifi.
Darren
itunes and hifi should never be mentioned in the same sentence. WAV
files from my qsonix blow anything from either of those interfaces out
of
marc0716;368291 Wrote:
itunes and hifi should never be mentioned in the same sentence. WAV
files from my qsonix blow anything from either of those interfaces out
of the water...
Hehe. I see you're very new to this forum. I'm assuming either you're a
troll or just new to the whole computer
radish;368283 Wrote:
Why not? The server is irrelevant in a squeezebox setup and I wouldn't
be at all afraid to put a TP up against a Qsonix, or anything else.
Then I'd have $6K left to buy more music :)
maybe/ maybe not... Truthfully, Qsonix is about the user experience and
and the
darrenyeats;368293 Wrote:
Hehe. I see you're very new to this forum. I'm assuming either you're a
troll or just new to the whole computer audio thing, in which case
firstly I ask forgiveness for thinking you might be a troll and
secondly I suggest you go surf the web for more information on
marc0716;368297 Wrote:
can i be both?
An uninformed troll?
Sure.
But go shill your wares elsewhere. It is incredibly tacky to use
someone else's forums for your advertising.
Hint: using someone else's resources to repeatedly advertise your
product is called spamming. Do you think Qsonix
Great... after the bots spamming, we have human spammers too. Oh well.
:(
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Themis
SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Denon 3808 - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus
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marc0716;368291 Wrote:
itunes and hifi should never be mentioned in the same sentence. WAV
files from my qsonix blow anything from either of those interfaces out
of the water...
Nothing you have said so far is accurate. You are simply showing your
rather large ignorance of computer based
pfarrell;246629 Wrote:
And they are nearly all guys. Look at the ads, they have beautiful
women who will love you once you buy this thing, that wire, or some
other amp.
Are you talking about beer ads?
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rdb001
John Atkinson in Stereophile, among others in various reviews have
stated that the overwhelming quantity of listening they do these days
comes from music server based playback. The PC's decoupling of the
optical pickup from the actual decoding process(reducing some jitter
components) has been
It's a slow process. Many audiophiles were (and some still are) against
digital, remember the controversy about sampling and the stairs which
were showed in sketches trying to explain digital, showing that some
music was left out. As the turntable and the cartridge were very
important (and
jt25741;246561 Wrote:
I think these statements have been made quickly, in passing...
While some may be making statements quickly, in passing the thing
that I thought bold was that, in this particular article, the idea that
music read from a hard disk was better, was one of 5 reasons to
DCtoDaylight;246621 Wrote:
While some may be making statements quickly, in passing the thing that
I thought bold was that, in this particular article, the idea that music
read from a hard disk was better, was one of 5 reasons to consider
owning a music server, headlined in Bold type, and
jt25741;246624 Wrote:
...high-enders which have little technical knowledge/patience to sting
together a Slimserver based setup. At the same time, many of these
same folks(TAS readership) may have expendable income which allows them
to dump $20K or so on some basic technology that most of
Maybe now enough marketing $$ coming in to oblige the magazine editors
to big-up the new, new thing!
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amcluesent
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I just picked up this months issue of The Absolute Sound, and there are
some interesting articles on network music servers in it.
Unfortunately, no discussion of the Slim Devices, but some pretty bold
statements that run contrary to what some other Hi End mags have said
such as, and I quote:
It's a start, but they have to move slowly because just like
politicians, it would be stupid to tell the truth that We don't really
understand engineering that well, so we make half of it up because we
get paid to.
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