Voltron Posted August 30, 2012 Report Posted August 30, 2012 Shit, I had better take my Touch out of the box and set it up soon.
crappyjones123 Posted August 30, 2012 Report Posted August 30, 2012 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?
Grahame Posted August 30, 2012 Report Posted August 30, 2012 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 *
Spychedelic Whale Posted August 30, 2012 Report Posted August 30, 2012 ^raspberry pi Actually that was a great idea, can an ipad like device act as a monitor ?
Grahame Posted August 30, 2012 Report Posted August 30, 2012 ^ 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 ...
CarlSeibert Posted September 2, 2012 Report Posted September 2, 2012 <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.
Spychedelic Whale Posted September 2, 2012 Report Posted September 2, 2012 ^ 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.
CarlSeibert Posted September 3, 2012 Report Posted September 3, 2012 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?
Voltron Posted September 3, 2012 Report Posted September 3, 2012 Squeezebox Touch + M-Audio BX5a = instant music setup for garage work table and record cleaning area. Nice. 1
shellylh Posted September 3, 2012 Report Posted September 3, 2012 (edited) ^Nice! Also, your garage work table looks a million times better than ours. Edited September 3, 2012 by shellylh
Dusty Chalk Posted September 3, 2012 Report Posted September 3, 2012 ...record cleaning area...That's pretty ironic.
Grahame Posted September 4, 2012 Report Posted September 4, 2012 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
Voltron Posted September 4, 2012 Report Posted September 4, 2012 But he cut out all of that stuff from the quote.
Dusty Chalk Posted September 4, 2012 Report Posted September 4, 2012 Yeah, records are pretty much the epitome of analog, and listening on a digital source -- that's the funneh.
dsavitsk Posted September 4, 2012 Report Posted September 4, 2012 ^ 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/
Dusty Chalk Posted September 4, 2012 Report Posted September 4, 2012 Grahame nailed it, then. Indeed. Spot on.
shellylh Posted September 4, 2012 Report Posted September 4, 2012 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.
CarlSeibert Posted September 5, 2012 Report Posted September 5, 2012 (edited) 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, 2012 by CarlSeibert
Voltron Posted September 5, 2012 Report Posted September 5, 2012 It's my new favorite spot, right next to the wine & beer "cellar." Tunes just makes it that much mo betta.
The Monkey Posted September 7, 2012 Report Posted September 7, 2012 I'm going to try to get more information from Logitech UE on this. 1
CarlSeibert Posted January 13, 2013 Report Posted January 13, 2013 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.......
Grahame Posted January 13, 2013 Report Posted January 13, 2013 Indeed, for a system that has been orphaned, there are still encouraging developments, thanks to its open nature.
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