| | velisl ing el er suscill utpatin henibh ese | your own DAC with an optical cable. It | Conclusions |
| | duis alit, suscil dolesto coreet et vel et | plays what the computer sends it, since | We have no plans to sell our rather |
| | nummy nulla adit lorpero odo doluptatie | it has no controls of its own. The box | expensive CD (and SACD) players and |
| | verosting. | has an Ethernet connector for printer | shove everything into the computer. Nor |
| | Alternatives | sharing or setting up an ad hoc network. | will we stop reviewing (and recommend- |
| | It costs US$129, or C$159. | ing) standalone music sources, both digi- |
| | The cheapest we know of is from | The Roku Soundbridge M1000 has a | tal and analog. It is, however, possible to |
| | Apple. The Airport Express looks like | feature set closer to that of the Squeeze- | get real high fidelity from a computer if |
| | the little power supply that comes with | box, and costs $100 less. The M500, with | you know what you’re doing. |
| | Apple laptops, and contains a Wi-Fi | a smaller, nearly unreadable, display is | And it’s probable that better devices |
| | transmitter that will hook up to your | even cheaper. It won’t run Apple Lossless | yet (the Squeezebox 4, perhaps) will yield |
| | local network, or directly to your com- | tracks unless (ironically) you download | even higher fidelity. It’s important to |
| | puter if it has a Wi-Fi card. | Slim Devices’ software. The picture | understand that the digital signal from |
| | | shows an “M2000,” which appears to be | your original CD remains digital right |
| | | vaporware. | through the entire process, and finally |
| | | | enters the analog domain only at your |
| | | | stereo system. The acrobatics that your |
| | | | computer, your Wi-Fi router and the |
| | | | Squeezebox put it through are as noth- |
| | | We attempted to get a Soundbridge | ing compared to the manipulations that |
| | | for review, without success. Roku’s listed | go into the actual manufacture of the |
| | | Canadian distributor shows startlingly | Compact Disc itself. Even so, there’s a |
| | | high prices, and e-mails to its site bounce | better than even chance that the disc was |
| | | back. Roku told us it would “look into | mastered on a computer not unlike the |
| | | it,” but that was nearly a year ago. In the | one you own. |
| | | meantime we have had a reader report | We’ve been told, by the way, that we |
| | Since it has no display, you configure | that the Soundbridge’s optical output | can obtain much better sound from the |
| | it from your computer. You can then get | is poor. Since Roku will not or cannot | Squeezebox by replacing the tiny power |
| | analog audio from it via a mini phone | supply a unit for review, we pretty much | brick that comes with it. Expect us to |
| | plug, or you can get digital audio into | have to leave it at that. | take the hint. |
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| | | CROSSTALK | |
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