Rob Darling;149666 Wrote: > 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 a 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, figuring that > people would find it pretty quickly, which they did. 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 the replacement. 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 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]
That sounds wonderful, but could you just go over the cost justification bit again please lol... -- autopilot *SlimServer Version:* 6.5 - Windows XP. *Amp:* Cambridge Audio 640a (living room) / Denon MD30 (bedroom). *Speakers:* Mission 701's (living room) / Kef Cresta 1's (bedroom). *Remote:* T-Mobile MDA Vario / Sony PSP / Cambridge Audio Explorer (IR). *Clients:* 1 Squeezebox3 + Softsqueeze. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 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
