My personal thoughts are that the hardware is brilliant - I have been using an SB3 with great success for the last 2.5 years and more recently a Boom too. I love them both but...
Logitech are at the mercy of 3rd party hardware and software for the success of the overall system. When it does all work the "system" is unbeatable in terms of quality for the investment made; when it doesn't work it is enough to make the cost of a Sonos bundle look attractive. I agree with the comment that Linux works best. My Ubuntu Server, running on a powerful but cheap Dell server, works perfectly but took a bit of head scratching and page turning to set up (I know my way around PCs and Macs, but not Linux). My ReadyNAS has been a waste of money on the whole, working but tediously sluggish, especially with iPeng on my iPod Touch. Knowing what I know now I probably would have tried something like the Tranquil PC (in the UK) for decent performance with low noise and low energy consumption. As enthusiasts we will put up with this experimentation although I resent wasting money, of course. If Logitech want to stay with the "enthusiast" community then fair enough but if they want to work with what must be a growing market then surely they need to offer a turnkey solution. Given their commercial size and prestige I would have thought this would be quite easy to do. With companies such as Linn and Meridian offering high-end solution it cannot be too long before other more cost-effective offerings start appearing. Come on Logitech - you can do it! You have done the hard bit. Now team up with a decent server manufacturer (silent, low energy), put together a working Linux server with a novice-friendly interface for usability. Then add tag, file and play-list management to Squeezecenter so we can just get on with encoding our CDs, sorting out our FLACs, MP3s and play-lists, and enjoying the music. iTunes for the discriminating. Or am I missing something? On the other hand you can keep this Forum busy with all the problems that people have, many (most?) of which are nothing to do with the Logitech product. -- dBerriff SB3, Boom, Musical Fidelity kW250S, Castle Stirling 3's ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dBerriff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12247 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
