Engadget plays rich audiophile with Slim Devices’ Transporter

I’d be interested to find out if there’s any research that looks at the overlap between those with audiophile-quality hearing and those with the financial capacity to buy high-end music hardware.  Because given the world’s sense of overriding irony it would seem likely somehow that those with the cash to burn would lack the delicacy of sense needed to best appreciate it.  Anyway, I’m sure rich people don’t concern themselves with such trivialities, so they’ll be all over Slim Devices top-spec Transporter music streamer.

Engadget took the time to stroke its haptic-responsive control dial and admire its VU meter visualisations, finding that the $2,000 device - while surprisingly light - boasts more connections than George W. Bush at an benefit for oil tycoons and a relatively straightforward interface, nonetheless concluding that the standard $300 Squeezebox would not be money poorly spent for most music-lovers.

Hands on with the Slim Devices Transporter [Engadget]