August 30, 201213 yr anyone care to comment on the sq out of the apple tv digital out to say one of those emotiva dac's vs just the squeezebox unit feeding an amp?
August 30, 201213 yr A sad, but not totally unexpected day. Take some time and read the all too familiar tale of a squandered opportunity here Too expensive for the mass market, too cheap for audiophiles, too flexible for marketing to get their heads around: too bad. Maybe the future is renting / streaming from the cloud, or playing in a walled garden ... Or maybe it's putting a software player on a raspberry pi, driving a USB DAC ... Nothing stops the existing hardware and software functioning today .. ( or tomorrow, in a VM going forward ... ) * sigh *
August 30, 201213 yr ^raspberry pi Actually that was a great idea, can an ipad like device act as a monitor ?
August 30, 201213 yr ^ already been done. Use any of the available web/iPad/ios/android front ends as a controller (e.g iPeng ) or use it as the player and AEX, or appleTV as the output device ...
September 2, 201213 yr <rant> It's the crumbling of our society. Time was when you built a company to make things, make a profit and you did so until you retired and willed the thing to your feckless offspring, who who either run in into the ground or sold the brand name to your competitors. It was a pretty good system. There were real brands and real progress. People were employed. Companies and brands endured for decades, some for centuries. Now you're biggest hope is to sell your SMB company to some would-be monopolist for way more than it's worth, take the money and run. The monopolist doesn't care. He's too big to fail. Customers are an externality to him. The ideas vanish. The capital vanishes. It's all very sad. </<rant> Good news for Jerry Harvey though. The Ultimate Ears brand is next up for trashing. And I'm not knocking Jerry Harvey or Sean Adams. They're just playing by the rules that exist and winning - Harvey particularly. He'll inherit his all old business after his old brand goes down in a thud. Good for him.
September 2, 201213 yr ^ already been done. Use any of the available web/iPad/ios/android front ends as a controller (e.g iPeng ) or use it as the player and AEX, or appleTV as the output device ... That's great, I guess it's time to order one.
September 3, 201213 yr I just ordered two from Amazon @ $239. It said "in stock 9-4-12", but I got an email today that said they had been shipped. Now stockpiling software for the survivalist winter. I'm sure there will be (or maybe the Sonos is) and "audiophile" device to get t he same job done for only a few times the price, but for as long as this hardware (and my existing SB-3s) lasts, why go there?
September 3, 201213 yr Squeezebox Touch + M-Audio BX5a = instant music setup for garage work table and record cleaning area. Nice.
September 3, 201213 yr ^Nice! Also, your garage work table looks a million times better than ours. Edited September 3, 201213 yr by shellylh
September 4, 201213 yr Maybe he means the incongruity of listening to active monitors fed by a digital source while washing the scratch in a slab of plastic before dragging a rock through it ... Or something
September 4, 201213 yr Yeah, records are pretty much the epitome of analog, and listening on a digital source -- that's the funneh.
September 4, 201213 yr ^ already been done. I'm working on this, too. I2C is built into the pi through a kernel module, so I am working on using it to control a Wolfson receiver to build the pi directly into a dac, along with other digital inputs. The handsome guy with the blue shoes in the front is me http://pumpingstationone.org/2012/08/nerp-meetup-08-27-12/
September 4, 201213 yr I'm working on this, too. I2C is built into the pi through a kernel module, so I am working on using it to control a Wolfson receiver to build the pi directly into a dac, along with other digital inputs. The handsome guy with the blue shoes in the front is me http://pumpingstationone.org/2012/08/nerp-meetup-08-27-12/ Cool.
September 5, 201213 yr Squeezebox Touch + M-Audio BX5a = instant music setup for garage work table and record cleaning area. Nice. The garage is a place for a record cleaning machine that looks like mine. Your new one is definite living room material. Edited September 5, 201213 yr by CarlSeibert
September 5, 201213 yr It's my new favorite spot, right next to the wine & beer "cellar." Tunes just makes it that much mo betta.
January 13, 201313 yr So now SBTs are going for thirteen hundred bucks on the secondary market. But on a hopeful note we now have: http://vortexbox.org/content/149-Logitech-SqueezeBox-replacement-for-under-30 Have I mentioned lately that the VortexBox people rock.......
January 13, 201313 yr Indeed, for a system that has been orphaned, there are still encouraging developments, thanks to its open nature.
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