watchnerd
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Das ist kein modus operandi für mich
QED
Das ist kein modus operandi für mich
It *could* be that Google decides to update the cast protocol to something incompatible to the current state of Chromecast Audio, that’s the major risk, and if that happens then any integration with any phone app will break completely.
Doubtful. Then I was talking specifically about Chromecast Audio. Google could change the protocol and update every single device apart from it, and perhaps the first generation Chromecast, and there would be relatively few people impacted, and Google could argue that those devices are too old (they are) and they're not obliged to provide them with updates (they're not), so that's your class action out the window.Given that there are at least hundreds of millions, if not billions, of devices in active service with Goggle Cast built-in, that would be an incredibly poor business decision on their part - many of these devices no longer receive manufacturer updates, thus freezing their functionality. Such an action might even trigger a class action suit from consumers.
Then I was talking specifically about Chromecast Audio. Google could change the protocol and update every single device apart from it
Of course I do. Google Chromecast Audio is not a product family but an individual product, now discontinued. If you think that anyone at Google is maintaining the code base for it you're deluding yourself.I take it that you don't work in software development, I do.
Google Cast is a single, encompassing protocol maintained in one code base for all the the various dongles and chipsets that support it. The comparison of it with their other unrelated software products is not a valid one.
Being able to buy one new?So what does this do better than a Chromecast audio as Roon endpoint to the Toslink of just about any SMSL, Schiit, or Topping DAC.
If you think that anyone at Google is maintaining the code base for it you're deluding yourself.
You're a glutton for punishment, are you going to send it to be measured afterwards?Speaking of which... I'm about to send mine in for the upgrade... $3k + 5 year warranty.
Doubtful. Then I was talking specifically about Chromecast Audio. Google could change the protocol and update every single device apart from it, and perhaps the first generation Chromecast, and there would be relatively few people impacted, and Google could argue that those devices are too old (they are) and they're not obliged to provide them with updates (they're not), so that's your class action out the window.
Google recently terminated unlimited photo storage, which was a much bigger deal, and nobody said much. Google Plus had 540 million monthly active users and it got terminated without a whimper.
Google News had a huge user base and they wouldn't agree to an intern working on it, once they terminated it.
You're a glutton for punishment, are you going to send it to be measured afterwards?
If something happens to yours, I'll definitely think about it. Isn't there some kind of rotation?
Between the phono capabilities and the remote (and the cats might get serious about plotting my death), I'm not getting rid of it. Figured I might as well go for the upgrade, then just settle in with it for the long haul.
I quite like it. If people get far enough into that thread, they'll see the amp put out some quite respectable numbers when Amir got it back from it's French Holiday.
I shan't be considering any other amplifier again.If something happens to yours, I'll definitely think about it. Isn't there some kind of rotation?
Between the phono capabilities and the remote (and the cats might get serious about plotting my death), I'm not getting rid of it. Figured I might as well go for the upgrade, then just settle in with it for the long haul.
I quite like it. If people get far enough into that thread, they'll see the amp put out some quite respectable numbers when Amir got it back from it's French Holiday.
You're a glutton for punishment, are you going to send it to be measured afterwards?
I'm convinced mine sounded better after the upgrade, a highly suspect opinion given they weren't even in the same room at the same time, so no controlled test, but the thought persists.
Nope, this is a shiny and French lifestyle amp.Are you talking Lumin here?
Nope, this is a shiny and French lifestyle amp.
R2R and vinyl makes yours a hipster lifestyle, you know it's true .“lifestyle”
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Ah, thanks. Getting confused with all the digressions and did not think that Lumin had phono capability.
R2R and vinyl makes yours a hipster lifestyle, you know it's true .