My 10yo son is a good boy. He is thriving in every activity of his simple little life, good grades, hard worker. He loves music, so when I came across some unused gear while cleaning I got the idea to set up a real stereo in his room. All gear deserves to play music, and I thought he would appreciate it. He loves playing piano and a musician feeds on music. By his age I was listening to lots of jazz.
I gave him an old Sony surround receiver that someone gave me in payment for helping set up their new surround receiver. It was collecting dust in my closet. A pair of Infinity Entra-1 CMMD 2 way bookshelf speakers, good to 50Hz - nice....
and of course, the obligatory SB3, which has been unused since Sonos came to town, but I keep it for the Inguz room correction capability. Plain wires.
He helped me set everything up. Cleaning the room was the hardest part, I didn't help with that. He helped set the SB up with WEP, engaging slimserver on the NAS, setting up networking on SB, etc. At one point he said while I was logged into NAS and router, "I never knew you could do all this stuff with the computer!" A new hacker is born?
I setup the speaks wide on a desk and a dresser so the sweet spot is sitting on edge of his bed. He is not to that point yet, but he digs the clear powerful sound of music in his little zone. He is beside himself with pride and amazement that he could have such excellent sound in his own room. I am amazed at how good it sounds for about $200 worth of gear.
His mother hung out with him tonight and showed him The Cure, and a bunch of other stuff on the network that he will explore. But before that, the first thing he played on there of his own choosing was some off color Ben Folds out of the 'Carlman' directory... AHEM!
He likes the old school high energy progressive rock stuff. "I told him there's a lot more where that came from - Uncle Carl will hook you up!"
He likes to explore internet stations looking for "YO" music which is gritty hiphop so they can dance like gangsters with their pants down around their ass. He also gets a kick out of foreign news where they "talk funny."
The little Sony kicks pretty good, it must be at least 15 years old. When we started it up it sounded like shit because the previous owners had all kinds of EQ and surround effect programs engaged. Once I shut that shit off, and turned the bass back to flat it started to make some nice music. After a little tweeking, eventually he said something like "That's good enough Dad."
He just wanted to get hold of the remote and start jamming.
PS: Reading a little on slim forum tonight I came across a post saying new SqueezeCenter 7.3 (maybe beta??) is a big improvement for wireless SB and Duet remote.
Just wanted to share. You guys got kids listening to music?
