Logitech Squeezebox Duet Wi-Fi Internet Radio by Logitech
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Digital camera reviews of Logitech Squeezebox Duet Wi-Fi Internet Radio
Digital camera Review: Couldn't ask for anything better....
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow. I was first amazed by how well this product 'felt'. The charging station is heavy and does not feel like other cheaply made plastic products. I had everything up and running and streaming music within 15 mins of opening the box. The worst part of setup was entering my WEP key for my wireless network. Other than that, setup was a breeze.
I mainly use this for Pandora and the integration is awesome. I can't believe I had doubts on getting this.
Digital camera Review: Crashes Constantly
Summary: 1 Stars
Ever since a recent update, my Squeezebox crashes *Consistently* every time I rescan my library. No matter what, every time it "Merges Various Artists" it crashes.
Totally worthless.
Basically, over the past few months, all of my music has become unusable with my Squeezebox because the scanning doesn't work anymore, and I get this crash EVERY TIME I try to do anything. It used to work awesome, and I would have given it 5 stars. Now this item that I've spent hundreds of dollars on is completely worthless, thanks to a recent auto-update. Awesome!
This product is junk. DO NOT BUY!!!!
Edit: "Customer Support" told me that it's my problem. (not possible, since many people on MANY forums online are having similar issues). They said it's because I have the word "The" as a part of some of my Artist names. Give me a break - that causes your software to crash?!?!? I don't get to choose what artists name themselves... What a joke.
Digital camera Review: DACMagic and Squeezebox offer outstanding performance
Summary: 5 Stars
I have suspected that music servers would most likely become the future of high-end music reproduction. The advantages seemed obvious. But it wasn't yet clear to me what platform, configuration or companies might provide that solution.
My epiphany came when I found a 2006 article by John Atkinson on Stereophile's website. He reviewed a Squeezebox Classic, comparing its output with an Ayre C-5xe ($5,995 universal player). Both were connected to a Mark Levinson No.30.6 Reference D/A processor ($16,950).
"Comparing the original CD on the Ayre C-5xe disc player, its digital output driving the Levinson DAC via a 1m DH Labs AES/EBU link, with SlimServer feeding an Apple Lossless-encoded file to the Squeezebox with its digital output feeding the Levinson via the AudioQuest OptiLink-5, I was hard-pressed to hear much of a difference."
He couldn't hear a difference!
Well, if this Stereophile reviewer admitted that he couldn't hear a difference between a $6,000 CD player and a $249 Squeezebox using a high-end DAC, I figured that I had found my solution. I just needed something more `affordable" than the $17,000 Mark Levinson DAC.
I began searching reviews of various DACs at all prices. I liked what people said about Music Fidelity's V-DAC, but I wanted to use XLR connections. DACMagic had them. The V-DAC did not.
The professional reviews had all been good for the DACMagic, but I was most influenced by Lars Tackmann's comments here on Amazon. So I decided to give it a trial in combo with a Squeezebox Duet.
I connected the Duet using RCA interconnects and the DACMagic using XLRs to my Krell integrated amp. My speakers are MartinLogan electrostatics.
I had expected a volume difference between these interconnects but it was far too great to compensate; it measured close to 15 db. I reconfigured everything using just RCA interconnects.
Afterward, the comparison still sounded like I had a large imbalance. To my ears, the DACMagic sounded at least 6 db louder, or so I thought. I ran a 1-khz test tone through both outputs and measured the volume with an SPL meter. I was shocked. There was only 1 db difference.
When I realized there was no significant difference, I listened again and decided what I was hearing were actually improved micro-dynamics within of the music. The DACMagic made the system sound more like live music.
I listened to a vocal performance by Josh Groben accompanied with an acoustic guitar, about as simple and clear as it gets. The most obvious difference the DACMagic made was in the detail, decay and reverberation of the performers. There was much less of this from the Duet alone. The sound was a bit more like I had thrown a blanket over the speakers.
I've now listened for dozens of hours rediscovering my library. And yet, I continue to be impressed by the sound quality; a precision I never remember hearing from CDs or even SACDs on my Sony or Denon players of the past. The combination offer outstanding performance and value for the price.
Digital camera Review: DO Not BUY
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought it and had it set up and then I had my router reset and try it to set it back up and I can not get it to see my network even thought I set the router up the same way it was.
I'm a sysadmin at my job and I can not get it to work so I have no idea how a reg. person would get it to wk. as I have spent way to long on trying to setting it up and I can not get it to seeing my network.
Don't buy it.
If i could i would return it but I like in AK and I already open it so it not worth it. I just will not waste my money on anything made by them again.
Digital camera Review: DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a good product no doubt. However, it was marketed as being expandable by purchasing additional receiver units, clearly, on their product information and website. Guess what? LOGITECH NO LONGER SELLS standalone Squeezebox Receivers. You can "expand" your system by buying one of their other, myuch more expensive products. So, don't buy the Duet if you want to expand your system it in the future.