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In Reply to: RE: Squeeze Box Touch Crusher posted by Bob_C on May 15, 2015 at 21:44:02
by spending another $200 on top of a $400 Squeezebox touch then they would by spending $1500 to $2000 hatcheting away at the average multifunction noisebox computer.
With the Squeezebox, & some of these other boxes, it kind of forces people to use a NAS drive. I forget how often people just locate their files on their computer, - which is really becoming more and more untenable in the "internet of things."
Still celebrating the uselessness of the new unwired MACBooks: it is the best single thing that Apple Corp has done for high-end audio: namely, - (unintended), - making sure that people don't bother using their computers for it.....
BobC, I do not doubt that you have a very good setup that you're happy with...
But with the coming of the new Apple TV, & ease and simplicity and cheap price of a more plug and play solution and proliferation of server/client home networks: multiple, multi-function computers are going to be giving way to multiple, single-function, network enabled devices.....
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
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to an 'any sound at all would be nice' kind of guy. :-(
That said, the ability to stream audio at very close to CD quality over the internet is a technological advance I never dreamed of living to see.
For a lover of more contemporary music, this might seem a mere convenience. But for someone interested in experiencing the width and breadth of a classical music catalog recorded over a time period of 50-60 years, much out of print, this is a HUGE deal.
So while many here are focused on typical audiophile SOTA SQ issues, and we've all been there at one time or other, some will experience just as much enjoyment listening to 78rpm digital transfers of long-dead, obscure Russian conductors and long ago orchestras as anything we've experienced in high-end audio.
"some will experience just as much enjoyment listening to 78rpm digital transfers of long-dead, obscure Russian conductors and long ago orchestras as anything we've experienced in high-end audio. "
But "high-end audio" is just the delivery system, not the music... No conflict. Well, little conflict, if their surface noise bugs you then you need some control over the bandwidth but that's nothing unless you have a religious objection to tone controls. Shoot with parametric tone controls you could even fake the thumpy speaker/cabinet resonance of the old players.
Yes, I DO hail from that era and rather like the 78 "sound", it's lively and fun (in a scratchy sort of way...)
Rick
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