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Squeezebox player upgrades design, downgrades sticker price
·Jan 16, 11:51 AM
Posted by: Daniel McSwain

From CNN.com: “Digital audio is great—especially if you’ve got a multigigabyte music collection sitting on your computer or you subscribe to an ‘all you can eat’ music service like Rhapsody.

“The problem, for a lot of people, is that they’re stuck listening to all that great music on the tinny speakers of their computer—or perhaps patching the laptop into their living room stereo system…

“Enter Logitech’s new Squeezebox Duet: the $400 network digital audio streamer employs a winning handheld remote with a brilliant color screen (not unlike an iPod) that lets you navigate your entire music collection—including some online services and the majority of free Internet radio stations—from the palm of your hand, even while you hear the music from the big speakers of your home stereo.

“The Duet is so named because it’s a two-part system: a base station and the remote…

“But the real innovation is the remote: beyond the ten buttons controlling standard functions,… it features an iPod-like scrollwheel and a brilliant 2.4-inch color LCD screen. That puts the song navigation where it belongs: in your hand, instead of a small LCD readout halfway across the room…

“Aside from the much improved ergonomics and design, the Duet keeps much of the same under-the-hood technology found in earlier Squeezebox music streamers.

“That means it’s compatible with nearly every non-DRM file format under the sun (including audiophile faves Apple Lossless, WMA Lossless, and FLAC) as well as free Internet radio stations and paid subscription online music services such as Rhapsody and Pandora.”

Read the entire article at CNN.com.



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