I spent a fair amount of time playing with the Sooloos at CEDIA and talking with the developers.
First: Its not just a standard PC with a nice UI. They did a fair amount of their own custom hardware as well as database work. Second: Its blazingly fast. The response time is much much better than any Windows/Linux media server I saw at CEDIA. Third: It has some interesting features that I don't think are done elsewhere, like simultaneously ripping to multiple lossless formats, for example. The UI has a lot of depth to it as well. No I don't work for SooLoos. Is it worth 12k? Maybe not to you or me, but to some it will be. Also, you have to realize that they spent 6 years developing this system without any outside investment. They have to price it at a level that they believe will allow them to recoup that investment. They are not competing with SlimDevices etc. They are instead competing with folks like Kaleidescape but oriented to 2 channel. Is the Kaleidescape system worth 25k? And I don't own any $1k cables (and never would). BlueBlast -- BlueBlast ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlueBlast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8155 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28499 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
