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TCP/IP Speakers
Fallen Kell writes "From the anouncement, "Polk Audio LCi-IP Ultra High Performance In-Wall/ In-Ceiling Loudspeakers are the world's first active Internet Protocol-ready Loudspeakers. They were created for IP networked systems such as the ground-breaking NetStreams DigiLinx system but also provide vast convenience and performance benefits when used in analog systems. Integrated digital amplifiers eliminate remote amplifiers connected via hundreds of feet of lossy, performance-robbing speaker wires." I had the great pleasure of having a demo on September 16th, 2005 of these speakers. The ability of connect to a wired network for sending the audio stream is simply amazing and wonderful innovation in the audio world."
These speakers sound better when you use gold CAT5 cable.
Hmm. Those bloody students downstairs playing their loud music at all hours... on YOUR stereo.
Now when the guy three doors down blasts bad hip-hop that can be heard throughout the entire floor, he can do it more clearly!
Many Bothans died to bring you this sig.
true audiophiles will not accept them.
Do you mean true audiophiles, or the clowns who buy power cables for a grand?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
....when you're 0wn3d: all your bass are belong to us!
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
Shame they didn't go one step further and make them wireless.
I heard of this great new technology, something about Frequency Modulation or whatever. Apparently some genius figured out how to transmit sound *wirelessly* (no shit!) for miles, even without line of sight!
I'm sure we'll read about that in Slashdot sooner or later. If you don't catch the first article, you'll be sure to see the dupe.
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
I better tell the experimentalists in the lab below using plain old kettle leads for their instruments that they're doing it all wrong, because some dude on Slashdot reckons there are people out there who can hear mains noise in the playback of their Jethro Tull LPs.
You bought those cables, didn't you?
For comments like this there should be a scary modifier.
Wireless audio.
No, wait, that's not new.
I think he's referring to 'audiophile grade' speaker cable, which as we know is of specified purity, and the metallurgical components of which are tracable all the way back to the name and pedigree of the burro who hauled the copper ore out of the mine in Chile.
But now I'm being silly.
resigned
All your speaker are now belong to us!
... "sounds" like VoIP if you ask me. ;-)
w00t
It won't be long until we have the first speaker virus, which starts shouting "GOATSE LOVERS!" rather loudly in an infinite loop.
Hmm. Those bloody students downstairs playing their loud music at all hours... on YOUR stereo.
All your bass are belong to us
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
"Do you mean true audiophiles, or the clowns who buy power cables for a grand?"
When you copy MP3 files across a network, they often sound better if you replace the capacitors in your NIC with audio-quality ones.
...no one can hear you scream. Hang on.
Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious
I cannot impress this point strongly enough: You sir, are scum, and you should kill yourself immedietly to make the world a better place.
Oh, come on! The guy offers a service to people who give him their money willingly. You can't be a golden-ear wanker without people to take your money and stroke your ego. It may not be a job that you or I would be willing to do, but that doesn't mean that nobody should do it.
Now, if you want to argue that his customers should be strongly encouraged not to reproduce for the good of the species, I'll raise no objection.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."