Am I the only one who thinks it is not cool to engage in blatant marketing of competing products on this forum? Jeez, even the modders are fairly low key and rely on word of mouth.
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 in a way that goes far beyond normal search > functions in its incredible ease of use, which we call Focus. 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. > > > > Rob Darling > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- highdudgeon Relax. It's about the music. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ highdudgeon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2195 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
