i felt i need to add my two bits as well... (no pun intended) sonos has a strong presence in consumer + even high-end (!) audio-shops all over the world, wheras SD seems to be less prominent.
i have seen demo centers and banners in audio stores in germany, canada and even south-africa! and i am not necessarily talking about your "supermarket-style" hyperstores, but the cosy, small dealerships with personal service. surely, this gives sonos more appeal to consumers of the "non-technical-type", who are primarily buying HQ AUDIO equipment and not an open-source technical gadget. ;-) while i realize SD does have dealers as well, i confess i have not seen any SD product in any retail shop yet. that being said, i am not sure if sonos is smarter - to me it seems they are simply addressing a different market: SONOS: customers with higher budgets, primarily seeking an audio device which is sexy to look at, has less knobs to tweak and which is easy to buy - i.e. less complexity and less things to break! SLIMDEVICES: customers who are technically savvy or interested, have a smaller budget and who are not only willig to, but love to tweak and fiddle with their equipment and continuously research and implement new optimizations. -- dcote ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dcote's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39623 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
