ryocoon

ryocoon t1_j4cqk89 wrote

While it sounds technologically neat, it suffers from a cardinal sin amongst many smart/fancy speaker makers.

It doesn't have some plain input jack. No phono, no 3.5mm input (it has 3.5mm output/headphone port from the specs I've read). While basic USB Audio mode support is nice, it is not a replacement from dumb analog-in. 10 years from now when the product is EOL, and not supported, it has high potential to be landfill waste because there is no basic input connection to connect it to other equipment. And the drivers will be ancient and out of date for on Windows, so it would drop back to basic audio drivers and no enhancements if you connected it there. Kind of a fail on all accounts.

I complained about this on the Leviathan V2 and V2 X. Now with the V2 Pro at least it has a headphone out to function as a DAC when you aren't using it as a speaker. Still no analog in. Which effectively means I would never buy it.

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ryocoon t1_j4cnt1w wrote

Well not everything that flies. (Lets not get into the 'Birds aren't Real' conspiracy). Your average pigeon isn't a drone, nor is a parrot. However, those are biological things. So they have something piloting them (ah the joys of meatsuits). While some flying insects are classified as drones (see worker bees as example), we still think of them as insects/bugs. However, a non-biological that does fly and does not have a pilot residing in it? Effectively a drone.
Yes we have ancient RC helicopters and model airplanes. They are essentially referred to as drones now. Even more so if they transmit back telemetry or visual data and take remote commands. In this way, it is being corrupted by marketing, but it is very much what the language has vernacularly evolved to.

If you want to get technical, then by all means, whip out the documentation and point to the definition.

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