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Originally Posted by Tyll Hertsens
You'll notice we have recently lowered the prices on our AirHeads and BitHeads to bring them closer to the price points we think plastic amps should be in the long run. And you'll notice that the new Micro line does more to pack in features and performance in that small (but, yes, not really portable) enclosure. You'll also notice, if you look closely, that that does creat a price gap in between. It's slated to be filled sometime next year with a smaller aluminum enclosured product line. That's all you'll get for the moment.
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So, to tie this in to your other thread, is the Micro Portable NOT the smaller version of the Micro? (I was thinking it'd be a thinner version, like the Desktop Portable is to the Desktop...)
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We think that this is best left in the hands of folks that can afford to incredible amount of software needed to fully integrate media into peoples lives. We believe our job is to rescue the audio from poor D/A conversion and wimpy headphone amps. As I say, once you can get an uncompressed digital stream out of a player, an iPod would be better than anything we could build.
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Which I understand. My thinking is that the already-existing Rockbox firmware gives you a "software" solution that would let you Just Add Hardware, more or less. I'm sure it's not that easy, and at the very least it'd be a support nightmare for you, so there's that. But (speaking as somebody who doesn't really want to carry around a portable amp at all) a single-box high-quality DAP is like the holy freakin' grail to me, and I want SOMEBODY to make this thing.
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We are going to do this; it will happen simultaniously with the introduction of the speaker stands and the class-D amp. We will be carrying the lowest cost Blue Sky self powered speakers, a couple of the Genelec self-powered models, and we'll carry the Amphion Ion and Harbeth HL-P3ES-2 mini-monitors.
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Hey, cool. Considering that I've only even heard of two of those lines (and I've spent literally dozens of hours researching computer speakers to find some that don't totally suck), I think this could be very helpful.