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+1. I have no trouble streaming 24/96 wirelessly to Squeezebox.
at the same time as doing other wireless tasks (downloading big files to laptop, printing etc).

But more phrone to interference at that bandwidth. I see Epson have released a new range of projectors which will allow a wireless connection. I'd be a bit nervous about completely relying on a wireless conection though.

I think wireless is an area Sooloos has to address. You can include ethernet as the preferred option, but there has to be some officially supported pathway fro wireless. I wouldn't expect them to do what Sonos did and develop their own mesh network to communicate on instead of standard WIFI, but I'd be happy to take the latter. Hiccups, connection issues and all, it should at least be a built in option. We're talking about source zones here and not core or storage zones. I can easily see requiring that those last 2 be wired, but a single zone source? Wireless should be an option.

Jeff

How about integrating Thunderbolt technology into a new 800 series card, new G series (or whatever they are going to call them) and a M80 replacement.

I'm curious - assuming this is a serious request - what do you think would be gained via the addition of Thunderbolt?

Jeff

With a complete clamp down on the information flow by Meridian, this thread lost steam and has been dead for a week. Interestingly, I came across mention of Dynaudio's CES teaser in another forum:

http://www.dynaudio.com/int/launch/index.php

It's one of those where they trickle out additional hints every couple of days or so. The 2 brands are obviously not the same at all and the eventual details of each product unveiling will be the major factor in how widespread the news about them disseminates. That being said, I'm curios to see how these 2 strategy differences fare in creating buzz leading up to launch day.

Jeff

On the Meridian Mexico Facebook Page the new "teaser" product has the designation "M6"!!

�Ay, caramba!

Thunderbolt has a bright future in the computer media server market for home theater applications. apple has pretty much replaced all of their computers adding Thunderbolt, their monitor is now Thunderbolt. the PC mfg are going to start integrating Thundbolt as well as various consumer electronics companies. TVs, video cameras, etc. will be Thunderbolt, so I can see Meridian adding a Thunderbolt card to the 800 series equipment. It is a much faster bi-directional way to move large amounts of data (audio/video/etc) and to able to daisy chain devices.

I own the Apple Thunderbolt Display. I also am keeping an eye on Macworld to see if a company like Synology offers a version of their NAS 1511+ with Thunderbolt in addition to USB and eSATA. So, I know the usefulness of Thunderbolt as an interface for data transfer. However, I haven't seen any mention in the industry of Thunderbolt being used in lieu of HDMI for audio or video transmission. Note here that I'm talking about home theater video and audio playback and not simply the movement of data. Yes, I know it's all just movement of bits but since the consumer AV industry moves much slower than the PC industry and already has its share of standards adoption issues, I have to wonder why they would jump to Thunderbolt anytime soon. Even for Meridian with their digital transmission of data from component to component, would Thunderbolt be that much better than SpeakerLink? Alternatively, does it do consumers better than ethernet connections from something like a Sooloos component to the 861 with an ID40 card? In other words, I'm not sure I see what Thunderbolt as a transmission interface would really add to the equation without encountering additional serious limitations.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm just not sure I see real ROI given the practical issues at play .

Jeff

Oh lala, sacrebleu

Well if it is the M6 that could fit with lower spec (diskless?) M80 replacement.

Chris