Hello, I am Rob Darling and I am indeed a part of Sooloos. I was the "guy" who gave the demos at Magnolia.
We have kept a policy of staying away from forums- this is a site someone else works hard to put up and pay for- but I felt that maybe there was little bit of ill will developing that I should step in and defray. We did put the Classic Car Club/Sooloos video on youtube in response to a post on the Sonos forum stating that we were vapourware. But the Sonos forum seemed more interested in our model than the system and things mostly ended there. That has been the limit of our activity on-line. We just debuted a month ago at CEDIA and have been busy since then working to finalize a number of software changes and develop dealer relationships. We've been watching the press closely and have been happy to see that we've at least made a splash- believe me, it was pretty scary to walk into the Denver convention center next to some of the biggest companies in the world and try to break into a really rough business. We are a new company and worked hard to develop what we think is a great music server system that serves certain needs for certain customers. Our product is priced the way it is because it does a lot of things, rather than asking the user to do a lot of things, which ends up being expensive. For example, it has two storage devices- a secondary and a primary- that actually offer zero downtime redundancy and can be regenerated by the customer, or any non-technology person, by simply switching two cables and powering up. I'm sure you can imagine the hard drive cost alone for a redundant pair of terabyte NAS'es. For users with multiple homes, the systems synchronize their collections. We integrate all AMG metadata, including credits and reviews, and all of it is easily searchable. We will soon offer a music store through the box and that will also be searchable in the same way. Our system is multi-zone and can be extended in any direction independently- more control, storage, or zones are only added as needed. So, please understand that we are a different system from the Squeezebox and Transporter, addressing pretty different needs. I actually was shown both by the great sales folks at Magnolia and really liked them. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to contact me. I notice that a number of you are in the New York area- if you'd like a demo, we can set something up. Best, Rob Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rob Darling ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rob Darling's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8163 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
