paulster;451743 Wrote: > I find it a shame that you've felt compelled to move system because > clearly you'd rather not and also because I've had a Duet system for > just under a year now and have had no problem with it whatsoever. > > I'll admit I'm antsy about some of the things I've read about in 7.3.4 > but I've started on 7.2.1 and been through every version of > SqueezeCenter until 7.3.3. > > I did have some buffering issues at first, but I was using a Windows XP > virtual machine while I decided exactly how I was going to implement my > SqueezeCenter server for production, and this had a wireless hop to my > router and then to the Receiver. Once I got my little Debian Linux > machine up and running and ran an Ethernet cable at the same time it's > been hiccup-free, and it is used for a good number of hours each day. > > It makes me wonder whether the problem is all environmental (the > comparatively poor reception on the WiFi antennas for example), or > whether the Linux platform and the Duet are simply a much happier > pairing than other combinations, but I am genuinely baffled by some of > the complaints I see here regularly. I do believe them, but I don't > understand how people can see such problems all the time and I see none. > It's not like I haven't tried all of the software versions over a > period of time either. > > Good luck with the Sonos. I hope it resolves the problems for you.
My experience is that there are too many releases, and too little testing. I guess the way to deal with it is to just refuse to go on any new release until it has been out for awhile. Clearly the Duet is a bit of a bi-polar product - it either works perfectly and people love it (and I love the overall design), or it is problematic and drives people nuts. Both of mine were the later. The issues MAY have been environmental in nature (who knows), but I got tired of dealing with all the variables to figure it out, especially since it would work fine about 50% of the time and not work at all on other days. The Booms and SB3's were more reliable, but still not bulletproof. Now that I've played with the Sonos a bit, I like what I see except for one thing. On every Squeezebox product, there is a readout (on the front or on the controller) with info such as Now Playing. There is no such thing on any Sonos unit (except, of course, the controller). -- damager ------------------------------------------------------------------------ damager's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15940 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67040 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
