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Does the Air itself have a physical volume control? If not, I would strongly recommend one. Having to fiddle with a phone to turn down the volume, mute it, or pause playback isn't great.
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I am seriously thinking of pulling out as just because of the exchange rate change over the past month, the cost of this unit has jumped for us from $545 CAD to $604 CAD.
Hey Matt, What rate were you using to get $545? I checked back at the closing rates and on the day we started our Kickstarter the Canadian price works out to $585.24 and at yesterday's close was $604.29. So the delta is only $19 or 4%. Thanks, Andrew
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I am seriously thinking of pulling out as just because of the exchange rate change over the past month, the cost of this unit has jumped for us from $545 CAD to $604 CAD.
I don't know if I can stomach and additional 13% price hike in the cost of this unit from when I made the pledge to what I will be paying now. And it looks like the CAD is slipping even further down into the black hole. By the time they bill me, I fear I will be paying closer to $700 CAD for something that I thought was costing me far less.
Can't blame Axiom as it's the way KickStarter works. But then again, they can't blame us Canadian customers if we pull out as the cost now is no where near the cost then. Yeah things aren't cheap in Canada are they. I have a hard time swallowing $600 bucks for this thing when I already have portable speakers in the house...granted they probably aren't anywhere near as good but that is only something I can assume as this point. I fear when this thing hits the 700-800 CDN price point it'll be product suicide. I'm sure it is a difficult task to try to price something accordingly.
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During the Kickstarter, the unit is priced similarly to a pair of M3's, so you're getting the amp, DAC and other electronics for free. That is incredible value.
Even after that, if you accept that the M3's represent a decent value, the upcharge for the electronics seems very reasonable to me, and certainly competitive with other premium audio brands. And this thing simply does MORE than just about any other competing platform out there.
Now, I personally can't afford it due to other priorities AND I don't have any unmet needs that it satisfies. But I think this is a very remarkable product at a fair price.
I would absolutely consider the DAC/Pre-amp thingy as a successor to my squeezebox in the future.
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How about getting rid of the power switch and one USB port and giving us a subwoofer out instead? I know the light is important to Mark :-). Hi Mojo, A subwoofer output on the pre-amp module would not work. If we offered one the volume level of your sub would not change when you changed the volume on your pre-amp/processor/receiver. I would just drive the sub from either line level outputs of speaker outputs on your system. I was going to fix the volume on my minimalist receiver and use the software volume control.
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Does the Air itself have a physical volume control? If not, I would strongly recommend one. Having to fiddle with a phone to turn down the volume, mute it, or pause playback isn't great. It would be "nice" but not necessary :-p. It adds cost, impacts lead time and increases MTBF :-).
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I am seriously thinking of pulling out as just because of the exchange rate change over the past month, the cost of this unit has jumped for us from $545 CAD to $604 CAD.
I don't know if I can stomach and additional 13% price hike in the cost of this unit from when I made the pledge to what I will be paying now. And it looks like the CAD is slipping even further down into the black hole. By the time they bill me, I fear I will be paying closer to $700 CAD for something that I thought was costing me far less.
Can't blame Axiom as it's the way KickStarter works. But then again, they can't blame us Canadian customers if we pull out as the cost now is no where near the cost then. Yeah things aren't cheap in Canada are they. I have a hard time swallowing $600 bucks for this thing when I already have portable speakers in the house...granted they probably aren't anywhere near as good but that is only something I can assume as this point. I fear when this thing hits the 700-800 CDN price point it'll be product suicide. I'm sure it is a difficult task to try to price something accordingly. Volume, volume, volume. It needs more VOLUME!
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Pull out then! You will want one later when we all say how great it is and then you can pay more. I`m going to use this at work so it will be used more than my house system. I have a spot for it on my golf cart too, so it will get more use than at work.  I think it will be the cats a$$ and I`m sticking to my guns and supporting Axiom. So it`s going to cost more than we thought..........
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Pull out then! You will want one later when we all say how great it is and then you can pay more. I`m going to use this at work so it will be used more than my house system. I have a spot for it on my golf cart too, so it will get more use than at work. I think it will be the cats a$$ and I`m sticking to my guns and supporting Axiom. So it`s going to cost more than we thought.......... Yeah...that's the idea! And remember to strap a subwoofer on top of your golf cart because now you have a sub out jack, baby. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
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How much weight does the battery pack add?
Are you going to release a stand for it? would be nice to have a stand with some matching wood accents on it.
Last edited by newf; 07/09/15 11:30 PM.
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