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In the Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source?
Post Subject: Talk about Corporate Prescience!Posted by oxric on: 11/1/2011
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 oxric wrote:


However, a new UK venture seems to have taken on board most of the criteria that I had set myself and come up with an off-the-shelf solution. Please see below:

http://www.itemaudio.co.uk/windows_audio_transport.html

I am however daunted by the size of those two cases, and the price is on the high side for what's on offer. I am sure the size of that behemoth is not justified, even though it makes passive cooling easier to achieve, or I would have seriously considered getting one of these. In any case, this is the way to go and eventually someone, maybe Item Audio themselves with their next generation "Transport", will bring something like this but in a considerably smaller form factor to market.

Best regards
Rakesh 


Funny world this, that Item Audio seems to already have been thinking of addressing precisely the concerns I mentioned above. Mark Welsh, who I think might be the owner/director and designer at Item Audio returned my call earlier today, and said that his company was coming up with an announcement with regard to case size, modular upgradeable power supplies and prices but I will leave the company to make their own public announcement in about two weeks' time. Suffice to say that the points I raised above would be more than fully addressed.

By the way I might add that one can specify an optical drive inside the case that would also be separately powered from the power supply. It sounds to me as if Item Audio is aware of the shortcomings that optical drives and hard disk drives may have but just make a choice to lessen the evil as far as practicable without resorting to designing such a devices from the ground up, I imagine an economically unviable task for just about any company I can think of in audio presently. 

And although Item Audio normally specifies a USB card that it recommends, it is quite willing to make use of my Lynx AES16 PCI sound card and even try to modify it so it can be powered individually, as well as the higher capacity SSd cards that I have lying around. Irrespective of whether I do go ahead with any of this, I find this company's willingness to try and accomodate a potential customer's requirements in this manner very professional and laudable indeed. 

Best regards
Rakesh

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