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Post by derekrumble on Jul 20, 2009 13:38:52 GMT
Following the good review in a recent Hi-Fi News I bought one. £128 is not a lot of cash for a gadget like this. Only technical limitation maybe is the you are limited to resolutions no higher than 48kHz/24 bit, and no support for FLAC.
However... really pleased with sound quality. Playing well known tracks from my hard drive and with the SPDIF co-ax output from the Philips going to my X-DACv3 the sound is fabulous. Subtle details are preserved, imaging is good - I have no complaints. I have found that 96/24 files that I have downsampled to 48/24 sound good too - no problems at all.
Its onboard DAC (Philips ? But can't find any details) and analogue output is good too. Clear and clean and the equivalent of a good quality budget CD player - what more would you / could you expect at that price point?
With my main system it is fabulous via the X-DAC, and elsewhere around the house and garden it's plenty good enough via its headphone socket.
Happy man.
Regards,
Derek
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Post by Sol on Jul 21, 2009 8:44:50 GMT
Just looks like a Squeezebox copy to me ... I'm a great fan of SB3 and streaming music is liberating (though you will end up constantly music surfing your collection and rarely listening to a whole track)
One advanatge the SB may have is the number of 3rd party add ons and suppport for the product ... I had one fo the original streamiums - which was pretty awful to be honest as the menu system was terrible. This latest version looks to be leaps an bounds better, and style wize it's definately taken design keys from the SB - so if the menu structure works similarly I'm sure you'll enjoy it equally well.
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Post by derekrumble on Jul 21, 2009 12:54:40 GMT
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