benybrady wrote: > Are you worried about the discontinued service down the road. I have a > new house build and am debating to go the squeezebox route which I > absolutely love or go the sonos route which I hear is seamless.
No, I just purchased a second Touch as a spare and also have a second Duet boxed as a spare. Over the years I have used and continue to useseveral orphaned hifi devices: 3 Carver power amps, 3 Soundstream preamps & a tuner, 6 Philips CD players, a David Hafler preamp and 6 Nakamichi cassette decks. Granted they are electronic devices not subject to the need to have a server in the cloud or updated software subject to the whims of Apple or Microsoft, but I've stopped waiting in line for the latest computer operating system roll out. My decision to stay with the Squeezebox system is based on the quality audio performance that could seemingly be bettered at this time at about 3 times the price. I considered Sonos but the quality edge still goes to Squeezebox (I compared Stereophile test results) Most critical listening is of FLAC files with podcasts being #2. Slacker radio is a distant 3rd to discover new music artists ( which leads to CD purchases to rip to flac. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ musicom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30459 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97106 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
