http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/ Engadget Comments for Slim Devices Transporter unwires high end http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Jul 24th 2006 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/
Who's the target market? What audiophile would pay 2 G's for inferior music?]]>Jul 24th 2006 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Jul 24th 2006 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Jul 24th 2006 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Jul 24th 2006 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Jul 24th 2006 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/
High end CD transports everywhere are running and hiding.]]>Jul 24th 2006 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/
I am really tempted.

I like the contemporary yet retro design to this thing. ]]>Jul 24th 2006 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Jul 24th 2006 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/when handling high-end digital outputs there is a gremlin known as 'jitter' that can creep in and causes a 'smearing' affect on the audio. Jitter is basically caused by errors in timing of the sampling of the digital signal at different points. Synchronizing of various clock circuits can minimize this, so people using an external DAC with a 'master clock' can use it's built in clock to drive all the relevant bits in Transporter and reduce Jitter.
Hope this muddled description helps.]]>Jul 24th 2006 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=45749]]>Jul 24th 2006 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Jul 24th 2006 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Jul 24th 2006 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/
Why do they insist on getting me all excited about digital technologys that are crap. Let me know when it will play vinyl JUST LIKE IT SOUNDS FROM MY TURNTABLE and hold SACD's

Until then, this is crap.]]>Jul 24th 2006 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/
Some audiophiles feel that they can hear the small changes in the timing of bits in a digital signal. They call it jitter. So they spend tons of money on special clock sources to reduce jitter. It's just like $400 power cables. It's a great way to separate audiophiles from their money.

Just like audiophiles don't realize the jitter is corrected by the DAC, they don't realize their $400 power cable is fed by 10 cent a foot power cables in the wall.
]]>Jul 24th 2006 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/they don't realize their $400 power cable is fed by 10
>cent a foot power cables in the wall.

Quite a few audiophiles plug the expensive cables into expensive line conditioners/regenerators. The cabling inside the conditioners costs more than .10 per foot.

I personally use a regenerating computer UPS and standard cables, a poor-man's version but the same philosophy. There is AC line noise in my area which makes A/B comparisons pretty obvious.]]>Jul 25th 2006 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/
This would look like an Olive competitor, but there's no internal hard drive. The spec sheet says it can play internet radio stations without being hooked up to a computer. Great, so can their Squeezebox and Roku's SoundBridge (I own one of those). Can it play off a NAS or some attached storage? I can't find the math that would make me think this is worth 6 to 7 times the cost of a SqueezeBox.]]>Jul 25th 2006 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Jul 25th 2006 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/
1 - RSS, visualizers other than the analog VU's and other software-based featuress from Squeezebox will be present and correct. SlimServer 6.5 will be software release that is requiredd for Transporter but it will obviously still support Squeezebox.

2 - Similarly Transporter will work directly with NAS systems that integrate SlimServer (6.5). Right now Infrant and QNAP systems are available, but we are working with other NAS manufacturers. There are also a bunch of homebrew solutions discussed on our forums.

3 - Transporter will be compared with a range of other digital audio products at various price points - each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Internally, we designed this product to beat the performance of audiophile CD transports costing $5000+. Olive ( and originally Hermstedt) have a simple concept - the CD player with built-in library, but we feel that moving parts (like hard drives) are always going to interfere with audio performance andd generate unwanted noise. Most of our customers already have music collections on a computer or storage system andd they want to spend their time and money on improving the playback of those files. Transporter is designed for them. If customers are looking to solve other problems, we and our competitors have a range of products to meet their needs. Put simply, some customers feel that this product represents a breakthrough in price/performance and they will probably buy it. Others may feel Squeezebox better meets their own needs - either way we hope to deliver many happy hours of listening to both.

Sorry for the infomercial but I waanted to ensure people got answeers to their questions.]]>Jul 25th 2006 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Jul 25th 2006 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Jul 26th 2006 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Dec 23rd 2006 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Dec 24th 2006 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/
I have purchased the Slim Devices Transporter and absolutely love it. Its DAC is excellent. Fit and finish is excellent. Slim took great care on the power supplies. The features are excellent - two analog audio outs (balanced & unbalanced, both active), two good 802.11g antennas for those difficult house spots, dual displays. All that and Open Software for the server.

And the music quality with FLAC is just exceptional... if your speakers are good enough to show it off.

I have mine running right into my power amp. No preamp, no CD transport, nothing else - Transporter, Amp, speakers. That's it.

Highly recommended.]]>Jan 13th 2007 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/
Why select the Transporter? I wanted the features - single package, dual audio outs, better 802.11g reception (it was going into a bad spot), better power supply, better jitter control. And, of course, the geek factor: it just looks plain cool.

Either way, I don't know a better system on the market for high quality digital music reproduction than Slim Devices.

I also use an Infrant ReadyNAS+ to store the music and run the slimserver.

Color me a happy customer.
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It's definetely better but I need to get some XLR cables to fully test it.

I really want to try the Transporter versus the SB3 with a tube DAC :)

All in all though, if you are not going super high end and you don't have a super reavealing system, stick with the SB3...]]>Jul 24th 2007 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/slim-devices-transporter-unwires-high-end/Oct 10th 2007 9:55PM