Sooloos music server: Anyone hear, anyone a dealer

lessloss, interesting perspective from someone in the business. I am also a little surprised by your comments of sound quality, when you admit you have never heard the unit before.

I was told I could just transfer my already converted lossless files over to the system. There is a computer program that comes with it.

I was also told that you should use it with a stand alone DAC, if you want the highest quality play back.

In the end however, your comments about jitter and master/slave is not only a complaint about the Sooloos, but based on your website, your overall complaint on most digital players, lacking a clock input.

I have no idea what this is all about:
"Don't get me wrong. I just don't like the marketing that makes it sound like progressive technology in terms of quality, when in fact the only progressive thing is the business venture idea of screening your music playback and pooling the data for business executives to see trends, maximize profits, etc. Basically, you are then a terminal hooked up to the boundless internet, which somebody will control. It is a PC with good looks and in the end, none of the freedom."

So from a theoretical perspective, how would you fix this? Is a clock link absolutly necessary, as to make the D/A the master and the Sooloos unit the slave? How easy (hard?), is something like this to fix/modify? Can it even be done?

BTW, you have some good looking gear, I wish the US dollar was a little stronger.

I have no idea what they did at CES, but Sooloos will come right and tell you that for superior sound, you need to use an external DAC.

What I want to know is, if the Slimdevice Transporter can have a clock link, then why can't the Sooloos units. If it did, I think it would come closer to legitimizing itself as an audiophile product. In fact, given all the jitter, noise inherent with a PC/computer, I have to believe that a clock link will become all the more necessary, as we push more and more into digital music. I will wholly admit I know little of the technical complexities of such a link, but based on the comments from Lessloss above, it sounds like no small challenge.