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Logitech Squeezebox Boom | 
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| Brand: Logitech
Category: CE
Buy New: £183.84
New (18) from £183.84
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 4077
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.7
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 8 x 18
nv: AC Power Adapter Supplied: Yes
Alarm: Yes
Audible Support: No
Backlit Display: Yes
Bookmarking Support: No
Codec Support: MP3 MP3 VBR and WMA Files.
Colour LCD Screen: No
Copyright Protection System: No
Depth: 45.72mm
Display: 4.3 16 700 000 Colour digital TFT LCD Display 480x272
Ethernet Interface: True 100Mbps throughput. Shielded CAT5 RJ-45 connector. Connects to any 100Mbps or 10Mbps network
Firmware Upgrade: Yes Flash upgradeable firmware
Folder Navigation: Yes
ID3 Tag: Yes
MPN: 930-000063
Model: 930-000063
EAN: 5099206010628
ASIN: B001EWDVXG
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 months
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Product Description
The Squeezebox Boom from Logitech is a network music player designed to let you listen to your digital music in any room of your home. The Squeezebox Boom is amazingly simple to set up and has built-in speakers with 30 Watts RMS power, so you don?t need to attach external ones. The Squeezebox Boom comes with wireless 802.11g connectivity and a wired Fast Ethernet connection, meaning you can listen to tracks stored on your PC, Mac or network server with ease. You?ll even be able to access the SqueezeNetwork service and tune into loads of different internet radios. With its stylish, modern design and excellent sound quality, the Squeezebox Boom from Logitech is an all-in-one network music player that lets you enjoy the songs of your choice!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Greater bedside music player January 3, 2009
Mark
I bought this device to sit on a bedside cabinet and it's just the right size and looks good! The sound is pleasent and good for the size of the unit. At low levels the bass entension is impressive and at high levels the unit automatically reduces the extension to avoid distortion. Treble and Bass controls are available for fine tuning and these work well.
Listening to Radio 4 in the morning is a breeze (with the AlienBBC plugin), and far less fuss than the scratchy FM reception in my area. It's also good being able to listen to the many Internet radio stations or growing number of online music services such as last.fm. The presets on the unit make programming favourites easy. It's a shame the same presets aren't available on the supplied remote.
The display is clear and dims at night. It's a pleasure to lie in bed flicking through my music collection with the remote control and the sleep mode means I can be sure that it won't wake me up at 3am if I leave it playing as I fall asleep.
The firmware updating issue others have mentioned (swapping between two versions), is easy to solve by removing the older firmware from the squeezecenter installation.
Who needs a manual? December 30, 2008
R. Amos
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Seldom do products live up to their marketing, however in the case of this little beauty it does! Out of the box with the SqueezeCentre server running on my PC I was listening to my music collection within 5 mins. I have yet to look at the manual! It's a dream to use, easy to set-up and I'm simply stunned by the range and quality of the sound (especially given the size of the speakers) and it has never skipped a beat anywhere in the house. Add a track to the iTunes library or create a playlist and it's immediately available on the Squeezebox. It has a good solid feel to it and appears to be well built. For me this was the entry level option and while it is not cheep it represents very good value for money. I will buy other products in this range in the future. Happy listening.
I run a PC with Windows XP (SP3), 1GB RAM, AMD Athlon CPU and a BT HomeHub
great little unit December 23, 2008
kipper
Great unit marred only imo by two things
1. Wi-fi performance is poor compared to other devices including the older slimdevices kit.
2. Forced firmware updates when connecting to other server - i.e. if you don't keep your slimserver up to date every swap between squeezenetwork and slimserver will automatically run the firmware update procedure.
otherwise worth it for the last.fm and pandora features even if it supported nothing else. (pandora/sirius/rhapsody are US only services at present but with a little tinkering can be made to work via squeezenetwork :))
Good effort December 14, 2008
Mr. Richard P. Evans (Surrey UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having been a happy Squeezebox user for many years, I decided to get a Boom Box, mostly to use in the bathroom.
Opening up the box for the first time, the build quality looks very good, just as it is for my Squeezeboxes. The possible exception was the remote control which I thought was perhaps a tiny bit flimsy. Also the remote didn't work at first, more about that later.
The Boom box could do with some sort of handle to carry it with. It is small enough to pick up with one hand, but it is quite heavy for it's size. So unless you have a strong grip, you find yourself needing 2 hands to carry it. It does come with a bag to carry it in, but exactly how that would be useful around the home, I'm not sure.
The Boom Box does not take batteries, you need to plug in the external power supply. I think they left batteries out to make it smaller. However I think I would have preferred to have a larger device with the option of battery operation, as this would have made it a lot more useful around the home.
Setting up was easy enough. It took a while to enter my wireless encryption key, mostly because I made a mistake, and had to go back to find and correct it. About 10 minutes in all for that part. After that I had it connected to my music server and playing music after only about 2 more minutes.
The controls on the front of the Boom Box, can be a bit confusing when you are not used to them, but I figured out my way through them quite quickly. I think they will be a lot easier when I have had time to get used to them.
It took a while to get the remote to work. I first had to figure out how to open the battery compartment, and as I expected, the problem was a piece of plastic that had to be removed from the battery. However the remote still didn't work immediately. At first the only buttons that seemed to be working were the volume control buttons. Some how it eventually seemed to sort it's self out, and now works perfectly, I don't know what the problem was.
One possible issue with the sound quality. Listening for a while getting ready for work I found myself turning it down, as the sound was annoying me. I later discovered how to turn the bass down slightly, and the treble up slightly, and that seems to have solved that problem. I think the issue is here, is that they have tried to make a small device sound like a big one, by adding more bass. I think they probably just over did this a little, and from a small device it just doesn't quite work. Now that I have turned it down a little, the level of bass is still quite impressive, but sounds a lot more natural.
The clarity of the sound is good. It sounds like a good quality DAC, just like my other Squeezeboxes. As for the volume of sound, using my Boom Box in my bathroom, it is more than loud enough. In a big room however, it probably wouldn't be powerful enough.
A couple of fairly minor issues that will hopefully be sorted out, in later releases of Squeeze Centre.
Synchronising the Boom Box with my other Squeezeboxes (using the menus on the Boom Box), I could only synchronise with one at a time. When you synchronise with a second Squeezebox, it un-synchronises with the first one. I then found that my other Squeezeboxes were no longer synchronised with each other. That's a bit strange, but it was easy enough to get around, simply by setting up the synchronisation from my other Squeezeboxes.
Connecting to the SqueezeNetwork, the Boom Box performs a firmware update. Then connecting back to my music server, it again performs a Firmware upgrade. That could be a bit irritating. It doesn't happen with my other Squeezeboxes, hopefully that problem will be fixed soon.
I don't actually use the SqueezeNetwork much, but just trying it out briefly, there is a reasonable selection of internet radio, and there is also an mp3 tunes locker, but I think you have to pay for that.
Over all, a very good quality music player. I'm happy with my Boom Box.
 Not a "Classic" December 13, 2008
C. Miller (Scotland)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I love my Squeezebox Classic - but I fear the Boom is severely compromised. Mine is faulty and is going straight back to Amazon. When it wasn't taking an absolute age to switch between Squeezecentre and Squeezenetwork ( continuously updating firmware every single time I switched ), it was producing insubstantial sound without any great power or authority. I would call it a bedside companion rather than a kitchen hi-fi which I had hoped it would replace. I honestly think you would be better plugging a Squeezebox Classic into your existing mini system.
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