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Offline Colin Liston

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SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« on: October 24, 2005, 11:22:04 AM »
Anyone have one of these?

http://www.slimdevices.com

I am thinking of getting one, but wanted to see if anyone had a reivew.


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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2005, 11:29:29 AM »
do a search for squeezebox, this gets brought up every month or so, doesnt support 24/96
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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2005, 11:39:31 AM »
I think it does now, or am I reading this wrong

From their web site:

Enjoy superior sound quality—Squeezebox2 features a high fidelity 24-bit Burr-Brown™ DAC, legendary in the audiophile community for their clean output and ultra-low distortion characteristics. Digital optical, coax, and analog connectors can plug into any home theater, stereo or amplified speakers.

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Listen to more audio formats—With support for MP3, WAV, FLAC, WMA, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis, Squeezebox2 handles all of today's leading and emerging formats without sacrificing audio quality. With built-in support for lossless compression technology (FLAC) and "pure software" SlimDSP™ architecture, your hardware investment is protected against technical obsolescence.
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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2005, 11:46:15 AM »
it does support 24/48, but not 24/96
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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2005, 01:01:36 PM »
and there are some companies working on killer MODs for it as well, from what i have read on audiocircle.com
looks cool.
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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2005, 07:02:51 AM »
Mine is heading to Bolder next week ;D

Even in stock form it will blow away quite a bit of the >1000 transport competition. 


The techs are supposedlyt looking into streaming 24/96, but last I heard it may not even be possible. 
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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2005, 10:12:09 AM »
A new version of the hardware was just announced yesterday...

http://slimdevices.com/

And, they're offering $100 off on 2 units.


At some point, I may try and add some cheezeball transcoding support for 24/96 (resample on the fly in software to 24/48). It is not ideal as FLAC files would need to be extracted first (rather than extracted on the head unit).

Large music collection performance still has issues.
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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2005, 10:44:36 AM »
Arg! New hardware and still only 24/48 max.
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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2005, 11:13:51 AM »
Quote from: Colin Liston on October 24, 2005, 11:22:04 AM
Anyone have one of these?

http://www.slimdevices.com

I am thinking of getting one, but wanted to see if anyone had a reivew.




I have one of the first gen ones...it's freaking awesome. I run on a linux box so mine will play both SHN and flac. I love the digi out on it. I record internet radio that way.
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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2006, 06:07:00 PM »
Just got this update from Slim Devices:

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Firmware 64 for Squeezebox2/v3 (in slimserver 6.5) includes downsampling to
48kHz for 96kHz FLAC and WAV playback. It is not possible for the Squeezebox
hardware to do 96kHz playback.

24-bit 96kHz FLAC and WAV playback is now available on Transporter (see
http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_transporter.html).
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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2006, 12:58:13 PM »
Woot, I am upgrading over lunch.  This literally makes my day.  Would anyone be interested in me posting pics of an external power supply I built for this thing with instructions?  It is a direct copy of the bolder ultimate that I built if anyone is interested.
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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2006, 05:21:45 PM »
Quote from: Daryan on September 19, 2006, 12:58:13 PM
Woot, I am upgrading over lunch.

This does not yet appear to be available in any builds.. The new firmware was not in the nightly I just pulled. They're thrashing pretty hard on getting 6.5 out for the transporter release.  So I'm guessing they'll roll this in really soon since they did say it would go in 6.5.

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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2006, 05:29:24 PM »
 ;D  nice - thanks for the heads up.. woiks like a charm.
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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2006, 05:31:07 PM »
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/

just installed this on the server and it installed 64 on the player.
« Last Edit: September 20, 2006, 12:10:24 PM by mwz »
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Re: SLIM DEVICES Squeeze box
« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2006, 05:46:40 PM »
Ah.. Thanks.. I was looking at the new beta and it is still behind the nightly..

I wonder how they are doing the resample?  The bug filing implied the fix was done in the firmware.
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