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Slim Devices’ Transporter™ was designed to appeal to the most discerning audiophiles and music lovers. It streams digital music with sound quality that surpasses even the most exotic compact disc players.
At the heart of Transporter is a "no compromise" attitude to component selection and electronic design.
You may think you have the best sounding, best looking home entertainment system on the block. Your 50” plasma, TiVo, Blu-ray Disc player and Xbox 360 may be lacking one serious additionhowever: the Slim Devices Transporter. Slim Devices, in their new Transporter home component unit, has essentially taken the technologies of their Squeezebox network digital audio player and put it into a great look, and most likely great sounding, device. Designed to look like it fitsright at home amongst your home entertainment gear, the Transporter is targeted towards audiophiles who will probably immediately take to the unit’s thick aluminum chassis in a black or clearanodized finish. 
SlimDevices Transporter with Remote The look of the Transporter, which was designed by industrial designer Fred Bould, also includes dual fluorescent displays, which are reminiscent of retrostereo components. Also tied into the physical design of the Transporter are a variety of buttons and a dial for various controls on the front side, while the back sprouts a grouping of digital andanalog outputs as well as an Ethernet port. Getting past the looks of the Transporter, it offers a nice collection of technologies geared towards bringing digital audio from your computer orthe Internet to your stereo speakers. This device, through integrated 802.11g wireless or 100Mbps wired connectivity, supports the following digital audio offerings: Apple Lossless, FLAC, WMALossless, AIFF, WAV, PCM, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP2, MusePack, WMA, hundreds of Internet radio stations and music from the Rhapsody online music catalog. Working with the included software, theTransporter can play your music collection stored on a hard drive and supports the usage of playlists. 
Rear view of the Slim Devices Transporter
In choosing the internal components for the Transporter, Slim Devices seems to have sought out a high end range of choices for producing a quality listening experience. This unit, forstarters, has the AK4396 DAC, chosen for its “high dynamic range and low distortion”. This is coupled with a gold plated circuit board to keep digital and analog sections separate, threeseparate “super-regulator” circuits for providing power to the DAC and analog stages and polyphenylene film capacitors for the balanced amplifiers, among other features. The SlimDevices Transporter, which is firmware upgradeable, ships with a backlit, 32-key infrared remote. More information on this device, priced at an eye-catching $1,999, can be found at the Slim Devicesweb site.
If you’re like many others progressing with technology in the 21st century, you probably have a great deal of music on your computer. However, because our computers don’t always tend to be portable or aesthetically pleasing, we usually tend to not have them near our home stereo system. We’re then presented with the problem of having our music stuck in one place when it really should be in another. Enter the latest version of Squeezebox, the V3; Squeezebox V3 is a wired and wireless digital music solution for the home that allows you to easily stream music from your computer to your stereo. With features such as track listing, multiple OS support, and built-in 802.11g wireless, you’ll be sure to get some great use out of this little box from Slim Devices.
Slim Devices? newest Squeezebox network music player is turning heads with a stylish look and the ability to stream digital music and Internet radio stations to a stereo. It is the third generation of a device which has won numerous awards from the tech media.
The Squeezebox network music player is available in black or white and comes in a slim, vertical brushed metal case which contrasts with an aqua-blue display. This 7.6? x 3.7? x 3.1? case has a stand and was designed by renowned California-based designer Fred Bould.
Images Courtesy of Slim Devices
Ever since we first reviewed the SliMP3 player last year, Slim Devices network music players have been the standard to which we compare similar products from other manufacturers. Our key criteria include ease of use and performance compared to traditional music players and the SliMP3 had it all. While the SliMP3 was fast, intuitive and powerful, its successor the Squeezebox added digital outputs and wireless capabilities – two options we had asked for in our SliMP3 review.
While the company Slim Devices has been around for over two years, we only just learned of their SLIMP3 networked music player this summer. We checked out the SLIMP3 for a review and loved it. In that review, we mentioned that the only thing it lacks are digital outputs and wireless capabilities.
Just as if the folks at Slim Devices had catered to our every whim, only a week after we posted our review of their SLIMP3 they were telling us of their new networked media player, the "Squeezebox".
Just a few weeks ago, we were posted this review of the SLIMP3 network music player. We had asked for optical outputs and wireless capability.
Well that’s just what Slim Devices has done in their latest product, the Squeezebox.
Here is the info from the Slim Devices website:
“Squeezebox is revolutionary. It streams your music from your computer to your digital stereo over your wireless or ethernet network – without any loss of sound quality. You now have lightning-fast access to any song in your digital music collection, anywhere in your home.
The SLIMP3 is a networked music player that hooks up to a server computer and allows you to play digital music stored on a remote computer through your stereo. The unit features a 2×40 vacuum florescent display (VFD), a remote control and hooks up to your network with a regular 10-baseT connection.
The device is simple yet powerful. The server software is open-source, runs on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, BSD and Solaris and requires very little resources. It can play mp3 music at fixed or variable bit rates up to 320Kbps and also can convert various other music formats to .mp3 "on the fly" with the LAME encoder. The SLIMP3 can also play streaming Internet radio such as Shoutcast or RealAudio.
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