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This keeps coming up on the slim devices forum. Anyway I see two main reasons for the inferiority of AES/EBU. 1. XLRs are horrible RF connectors. In order to send a square wave fairly faithfully the interface must support a bandwidth many times higher than the frequency of the square wave. For the signals in question that is getting well up into the RF spectrum where the XLRs are terrible. The impedance varies radically with frequency which will cause all kinds of bizarre reflections. The choice of XLR was a very poor choice. 2. Output voltage. The S/PDIF electrical spec is 0.5V into 75ohms, but the AES/EBU is 3-5V into 110 ohms. Think about that for a second, what happens when you put 5volts across 110 ohms? You get almost 50mA of current flowing. This means the driver sitting in the source box has to be able to dump between 30-50ma into the cable. That causes huge current spikes in the power and ground pins of the driver chip which is going to cause big noise spikes in the power and ground planes of the board. If you are not extremely careful that is going to cause significant jitter in the output signal. All modern high speed interfaces use less than 0.5V signal. As far as I can tell the XLRs were chosen because studios had lots of microphone cables and wanted to use them. Because they are such lousy RF transmission lines they had to go with high voltages to make sure there was some signal left at the end. Maybe Tyll can tell us whats in this paper? AES E-Library: Is the AES/EBU/SPDIF Digital Audio Interface Flawed?

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How about this approach ? USB over Ethernet - share USB device over Ethernet : USB to Ethernet Connector

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^ Look what cats had to put up with before the iPad! , oh!, the humeownity

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Thats because it isn't a release candidate yet, and all the Beta Testers had to sign an NDA allegedly

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Small. Cheap. Good. Feature Rich (Flac/Gapless/ReplayGain) Removable / Replaceable Micro SD Media. Use it for its intended purpose. There may be other devices that better fit your intended use case. What exactly is lacking in over a days worth of preselected media? Don't forget the built in FM Radio (How Quaint ), Although Clear Channel have done their best to make this less useful.

^People don't like admitting they're wrong? Or feel foolish, having spent over the odds? Or define themselves by their purchases? so by attacking their purchasing decisions , they feel you are attacking them? IMHO, YMMV

Did someone on chat want to use a pico dac/amp with an iPad? or something like it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeDalRBjyJo

One was released into the wild inadvertently by a retailer last year, so the hardware has been manufactured. They were just waiting for the software to be ready "when its done". The 7.5 server software is now available for download (and works with the existing devices, I can confirm ) Official announcement here Squeezebox : Community : Forums - Announcements in Forum : General Discussion Server release notes Release Notes - SqueezeboxWiki Touch UI (Squeezeplay) notes SqueezePlay 7.5.0 Release Notes - SqueezeboxWiki + product videos e.g. Waiting for the "Go Signal" to propagate through the retail channels ..

Well, the resident Mac Fanboi at work had his iPad out for all to fondle today. It is indeed Teh Shiny!. He had a leather Convertible Book Jacket for iPad : Incase Product which seemed to compliment it nicely, and would prop it up at various angles for viewing or typing. He had set it up to be a photo viewer / slideshow using the origami transition. We debated the merits of the walled garden/gated community that apps vs. open standards entails. From a development perspective I can see the advantages of of optimizing for a fixed platform with a known spec, rather than having to craft a general solution, with the trade-offs that involves. In a world where people don't have access to clean drinking water, no one actually needs this, but I can see why it is desirable.