audio-talk

The Chili Peppers pressing is nice - I was in HMV t'other day and it just begged me to take it home with me

Mangler Jnr quite likes a bit o' Cake too

Hi Steve

Is your PM inbox full?
I have sent you a PM but it's still in my outbox.

ATB
Chris

Spinning this on vinyl

You've picked the wrong night for posting - many will be in attendance at the pre Owston seminar.
They're probably on the fourth or fifth pint by now

The speaker is a three way, and if the crossovers are 2nd order Wilmslow Audio's statement would be correct.

Some, but not all LAN ports can deal with a direct connection without the use of a crossover cable. If your LAN ports cannot deal with it you'll need a crossover cable. You'll also need to ensure that your notebook and your Squeezebox are in the same IP range. When you've got the devices capable of ...

Dave the bass wrote:

The Stratmangler wrote: Certainly impressed an old friend of mine in the wee small hours of this morning

DTB

With the music, Dave, with the music!

Dave the bass wrote:At Kent Massiff get togethers Nuclear Burn is often a reference track. Awethumne.

Certainly impressed an old friend of mine in the wee small hours of this morning

So why did Logitech stop making them then? Because Logitech are a hardware company and couldn't cope with the tech support calls - they'd much prefer to just switch out a faulty piece of hardware than pay the salary for somebody with a lot of product knowledge. Instead of making it just a streaming...

You could go for Sonos.
Doesn't do hi-res, but it is capable of doing CD spec files.

I did read that an Oppo BluRay player is capable of streaming too.

a Logitech UE Smart Radio (which)[/list]My understanding (feeble as it is) is that the UE is a lobotomised Squeezebox but that it can be made to run the SqB firmware That has its own software for local library access. The UE Smart Radio has not been well received by the Squeezebox community, probab...

pre65 wrote:

nickds1 wrote: I'm tempted by a Vortexbox as per http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261079402974

I presume that needs a monitor to see what's going on ?

Nope!
You can access it remotely from anutha 'puter.

Many years ago I did buy a Burman 50w combo, and a certain Mr Goodsall using one of their amps swung it for me. It was the most unreliable piece of shite I ever bought - I returned it to the shop because it was forever killing preamp valves (I got through about a dozen in a 4 week period. Sounded ni...

Ooohhhhhh!!!!!!!
Go on then .....

Noddy goes to Sweden spinning as I type ....