Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] My perfect audiophile box

2010-11-13 Thread firedog
Phil Leigh;589077 Wrote: No it isn't - great sounding recordings remain (as ever) the frontier for MUSIC lovers. You don't need hi resolution for great sounding recordings. What confuses people is that in many cases the only way to get buy great sounding recordings is in

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] My perfect audiophile box

2010-11-12 Thread blu.vulcan
Hi all, I wan to share with with you this idea. I was thinking about an essential box to connect to the SBS with the following feature: 1) low cost (no more than 100#8364;) 2) audiophile quality 3) Input: Eth, wiFi (optional) 4) Output: Spdif coax, optical (optional) No need for display, no IR

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] My perfect audiophile box

2010-11-12 Thread cliveb
blu.vulcan;588970 Wrote: Hi all, I wan to share with with you this idea. I was thinking about an essential box to connect to the SBS with the following feature: 1) low cost (no more than 100€) 2) audiophile quality 3) Input: Eth, wiFi (optional) 4) Output: Spdif coax, optical

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] My perfect audiophile box

2010-11-12 Thread SuperQ
Nothing Audiophile will be 100€. ;) -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83260

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] My perfect audiophile box

2010-11-12 Thread Mnyb
I have used the SB3 and now the Touch for this purpose . The display is not unnecessary you need it for easy setup , the receiver's lack of UI makes really awkward to setup and configure and fault trace sometimes . This could easily have been fixed by some remote UI to take care of this but

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] My perfect audiophile box

2010-11-12 Thread blu.vulcan
cliveb;588977 Wrote: Yes, it does exist. It's called a Squeezebox Receiver. £99.95 from Amazon UK, which is about 110 Euros. So not quite under 100 euros, but not far off. You can ignore the fact that it also has a DAC - you don't have to use it. Internal DACs are far from expensive - the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] My perfect audiophile box

2010-11-12 Thread aubuti
blu.vulcan;589013 Wrote: It would be acceptable if only it could handle hi-resolution files... Well now you're changing the specs (it can be audiophile without being hi-res). Next you'll say it should be less than 75€. :-) The SBR does 24/48. If you need 24/96 you'll need to raise your price

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] My perfect audiophile box

2010-11-12 Thread blu.vulcan
aubuti;589020 Wrote: Well now you're changing the specs (it can be audiophile without being hi-res). Next you'll say it should be less than 75€. :-) The SBR does 24/48. If you need 24/96 you'll need to raise your price threshold or start pitching the idea to hardware makers. Or both.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] My perfect audiophile box

2010-11-12 Thread Kal Rubinson
blu.vulcan;589013 Wrote: It would be acceptable if only it could handle hi-resolution files... P.S.: I agree about the cost of the rca socket :) bluThe Touch handles 24/96 just fine. -- Kal Rubinson Kal Rubinson's

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] My perfect audiophile box

2010-11-12 Thread Pat Farrell
On 11/12/2010 04:08 PM, blu.vulcan wrote: ...so why not Logitech? Duh, because Logitech is a mass market brand. They make speakers and mice and expect to sell tens of millions of them. And if it works, the Google TV/Review will sell tens of millions (probably in version 2). I have zero

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] My perfect audiophile box

2010-11-12 Thread Phil Leigh
blu.vulcan;589027 Wrote: Yes...:) but today hi resolution is the frontier for audio lovers, it is not feticism...the difference is remarkable. ... No it isn't - great sounding recordings remain (as ever) the frontier for MUSIC lovers. You don't need hi resolution for great sounding