I think the duet would work well for you. The duet comes with a player and a controller. Another player can be purchased seperately for ~$140, so you can expand for a pretty small cost. You can also purchase another controller charger stand if you wish to have one in both of your listening locations. This is < $50 with a power supply.
You are already steaming music with your soundbridge, so you have an idea of how a squeezebox will perform. You can expect the same, if not better, performance from a squeezebox. I use Pandora too and it works well with the squeezebox. I don't know about Sirius - you should search the forums to see how well that is working for people. People in this forum use the router that you have purchased, so that should not be an issue. Since you are running custom firmware on it, you will have the ability to specify IP addresses for your squeezeboxes via static DHCP, which has been reported to alleviate a number of issues. I have a WRT54GS running DD-WRT and have assigned addresses for my SBs. I configured it that way just because I perfer to have static addresses. As somebody else mentioned, powerline ethernet adaptors can be used to eliminate the wireless issues. I use on in my kitchen to alleviate issues with interference from the microwave. Keep in mind that you can purchase squeezeboxes from Logitech with a 30 day no-questions-asked return policy. I'm not sure what Amazon or other retailers' policies are. I don't know much about Sonos. I'm sure it would work for you too. But, I think the squeezeboxes would work for you at a smaller cost. Best of luck with whatever you choose. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 3 Booms, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.3.3, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 30,015 songs, 2,448 albums, 451 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior Kraftwerk's "The Catalog", Miles Davis' Amazon exclusive ~70 CD box set, and U2's "The Unforgettable Fire" box are next in line to burden my credit card :-). Too many good releases in a short period of time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70113 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
