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: C a r b u r o wrote:
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: Hi all there,
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: I have a wish...
: is there something on the market that works like a little home-decoder
: and player for compressed audio files (APE, FLAC, OGG, MPEG...) with
: good D/A performances, good RCA pre outs, a diplay for managing files,
: with no on-board memory.
: I mean with USB and Firewire connections, just to plug in your USB flash
: memory or hard disk when you are at home and listen.
: Maybe with an upgradable firmware, useful when a new audio format comes.
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: I wish to plug something like this to my preamp at home...
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: Thanks for your answers.
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: Microsoft would have you buy a PC with Media Center installed.
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: The problem of dealing with ever changing media formats has almost
: certainly
: been the reason tha no-one's tried this other than to provide CD players
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: and DVD ) that play mp3 too. It's eay to install a new codec on a PC but
: just try that on a piece of hardware.
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: Graham
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: Thanks for your answer, Graham,
: I didn't mean a pc, with it's sophistication, unreliability and N O I S E.
: I understand what you mean about new codecs, but I think it's not so hard to
: develop a linux-embedded system (do you know tomtom go?) easily ugradable,
: stable and easy to use.
: So hard?

it isn't and Graham is wrong - many dvd players, for instance, can be
software upgraded (just start it up with new software on a cd that's inserted)
and frankly, it is the only sensible way to go - the obsolence card has been
played
too many times by the industry - consumers don't buy it anymore ;-)

Rudy