Re: [slim] Boom or Radio for childrens room

2010-02-20 Thread Mark Miksis
The Boom has metal speaker grilles which can be easily removed and cleaned. The Radio has a cloth speaker grille. -- Mark Miksis Mark Miksis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Boom or Radio for childrens room

2010-02-20 Thread raven22
Initial the Radio is good, but in a few years the kids will like the superior soundquality of the Boom. -- raven22 Setup: 1 SB3, 3 Booms and 1 Radio. Server: SheevaPlug running Debian 6.0 Squeeze on SD-card with SqueezeBoxServer 7.5.0 --

Re: [slim] Boom or Radio for childrens room

2010-02-19 Thread Muele
For preschool operation album art is the killer feature that should make you choose the Radio IMO. If you can get a combo of plugins to allow all albums of genre:Children be shown by the click of a preset-button, the kid can choose his music based on the way the album cover looks like. I know my

Re: [slim] Boom or Radio for childrens room

2010-02-19 Thread youngml2009
We have a Radio in our baby's bedroom and its fills the space very well. Having the hair dryer sound effect as a preset was a godsend in those early months. -- youngml2009 youngml2009's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.c

Re: [slim] Boom or Radio for childrens room

2010-02-19 Thread johnas
I bought a Radio for my 3 month old son's room - I know he's pretty young but I needed a reason to pick one of these up. The sound is great for such a small box. Personally I like the Boom display better than the Radio. The colour screen is nice, but I can't operate it with a IR remote if I am mor

Re: [slim] Boom or Radio for childrens room

2010-02-19 Thread Phil Leigh
Letten;518536 Wrote: > Hi, > > I can't make up my mind, what is best suited for young children, Boom, > Radio? > > At the moment my daughter (age 8) is using a Boom in her room and soon > I want to equip my sons room (he's 4). > > My daughter uses presets for favorit radio and playlists, some

[slim] Boom or Radio for childrens room

2010-02-19 Thread Letten
Hi, I can't make up my mind, what is best suited for young children, Boom, Radio? At the moment my daughter (age 8) is using a Boom in her room and soon I want to equip my sons room (he's 4). My daughter uses presets for favorit radio and playlists, sometimes she also uses the navigation to fi