I was recently looking at options as a friend was thinking about Sonos and I was trying to see if there was a nice squeezebox alternative that might save him some money.
In the end the Sonos worked out to be the best option for him, but the best I could come up with was: Aktimate Micro powered speakers (http://www.aktimate.com.au/micro.html) and a Raspberry Pi with PiCorePlayer and a usb wifi dongle. The Aktimates have a built in DAC (PCM2704 I believe so nothing special but better than Raspberry Pi analog out), so usb cable from the speaker to the Pi and should be able to power the Pi from the built in iPod dock (30 pin) with an adapter. So a one power point solution, even if it would be a bit of a pain to move around compared to Sonos. As PiCorePlayer runs in memory you don't have to worry about clean shutdowns. There is also the Akitmate Mini+ which are bigger and more expensive and have no cheap built in DAC, so if using with a Raspberry Pi you would need a DAC. They apparently sound much better but they would be much heavier to move. Of course an old iDevice or Android could be used in place of the Raspberry Pi if you already had one. Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BenH73's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38459 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102571 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
