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For my dad, I just have him set up to use the boom as an internet radio. It's a great sounding system and is easy enough for my technologically impaired father to manage. You can use this device and the boom with or without the logitech squeezebox server software. I'm a bit of an audiophile tech geek and I love this thing. All in all a great sounding solution. The system itself is flexible and with the more recent software updates it's removed any of the minor glitches I might have complained about. It's actually easy to set up and for the geeks of us out there, the DAC sounds great, easily the best DAC in the price range. For my less audiophile/geek friends I have gotten them Logitech Booms.
There are some other more expensive units like from Naim, etc, and compared to them this is a good value. Of course with mp3's it is a little less quality, but that is no fault of this unit. The sound of the cds when converted to FLAC files are as good as from a very high end cd player.
I recommend buying and using a different software like Easy CD-DA extractor to convert your cds to hard drive files into formats like FLAC or m4a or mp3. It can also take downloaded higher quality 24 bit/96khz files and play them in addition to the 16 bit/44 khz cd quality files or mp3's. This unit works very well to send music to a quality stereo system via a high speed home wireless network.
Be sure to back up your files as it takes a long time to build up a hard drive with good music files and you do not want to lose them. If you want something for less, and don't need the higher quality, the regular squeeze box is worth a look. Then the transporter can be linked to your music files on the hard drive and you can play them via your computer.
This unit does come with a squeeze center software that allows you to link to iTunes if you already have that set up and also it allows different playlists.
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