Which Gadget you like to Buy

Hi mridul,

Squeezebox is a streaming client (just like your windows media player in PC, in simple way), which is capable of fetching music from a centrally located PC or similar hardware. This is highly rated among audiophiles & widely used since 2002 IIRC.

Internal DAC of SB is excellent, but you can over-ride that by connecting via digital out. SB's are wi-fi enabled as well as ethernet connectivity. It takes a variety of formats including mp3, flac, aac etc

In a nutshell, if you have a PC or similar device running with a software server (slimserver / Squeezecenter) with music stored in 1 location, Squeezebox can pickup this as long as both the devices are networked (wifi or ethernet)

You may get a brief idea from this network diagram (this is my home network)


Squeezebox duet in living room. Real advantage is you can have n number of clients streaming different music from centrally located server

Sunil

Thanks...

I was a bit confused on same...

I am using NetGear for the same...

And got a Systemline MusicServer-160GB, with three outputs...(for multiroom)

Mine ..

---- "COWON I-AUDIO D2 4GB"-------
let me remove I-pod,creative cloud, the D2 has a better Audio DAC as compared to ipod,creative... great looks 30fps video ,touchscreen,blah blah

ipod,creatives are ok kinda players ..real audiophile will go for D2 ..MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, FLAC, APE, WAV, AAC supports

Video: MPEG4-SP (DivX, XviD, ...), WMV9 - 320 x 240, 30fps
review:
Cowon iAudio D2 Review

available in india at 9000rs removes i-pod smoke n other clouds out ...

yes all will disapporove as COWON has very limited stores..so less people knows about it!

I think DACs on all portable players suck by audiophile standards.

The simplest solution that allows for ripped files to be played back on a revealing system is.... a portable audio player with
- a capacious hard drive, and
- a digital out.

iRiver's ihP-1xx jukebox series was one of the rare lines to offer this, then they discontinued the practice with their later product lines.

I think (not sure) it's possible to get a digital out from Archos devices using the docking station thingies (which they reap a premium on). Any others?

Then of course Squeezebox came along. You'd almost think Slim Devices paid mp3 player manufacturers to not provide digital outputs on their products.

i just love my psp

I love my Archos 605 too and the wifi streaming feature is simply amazing. Alas nowadays my Archos has started creating problems :-( !!

I hava a DVR dock for My Archos and it is connected via digital coaxial to my av reciever ! Touch Screen + Digi Out = Happyness !!

To Digitize LP recording my suggestion would be to connect it to the Line In Socket of your pc and use a software like Cowon Jet Audio to convert the same into MP3. Excellent software I must say !!