I have followed some of the threads complaining about limitations with using the Touch with larger music collections on USB drives. I strikes me that some users may be expecting too much from a $300 device with pristine audio output, a touch screen, a remote control, easy access to internet radio, Rhapsody and many other services. There are not many audio devices with this sound quality in this price range. For example, a 160 gig ipod costs $270 and has nowhere near the audio quality or features of a Squeezebox. A Sonos setup cost much more and cannot act as a stand alone player. To expect the Touch to also internally handle music collections of hundreds of gigabytes or terabytes, which must have cost many thousands of dollars, seems to me to be an unfair. I am somehow reminded of reviewers of $300 speaker systems that complain about the lack of impact from the 4 1/2 inch drivers and lack of air in the $20 tweeters. There are very nice speakers in that price range, but you can't expect them to perform like $1,000 models. Logitech should not be vilified for its effort to stick with the original approach of Slim Devices: putting audio quality first in making reasonably priced network music players on an open platform. The Touch, like the Boom and Radio were natural extensions of this approach. The Touch admittedly was an ambitious project and, in my view, has largely succeeded. I suspect many other consumer products companies would have not even tried or would have abandoned the project along the way. What do you think?
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