I guess that most of us know that this was initially a product line made by a company called Slimdevices. The idea behind the product was to provide great hardware and software that provides excellent audio quality in the emerging digital audio age. And they did that in a community kinda world. Since its beginning, the software platform has been open source and DYIers were stimulated in building custom server designs, tweaking the software, and even tweaking the hardware. The whole system was intended for people who wanted an excellent audio system where they could have their fair part of hands-on. Now that this company has been bought by Logitech, I think it is struggling a bit with the Slimdevices philosophy. Logitech is not used to bringing products to the market that are partially built by their customers. For example, Im pretty sure that in the Slimdevices age, it was way easier to postpone a software and or hardware release. In the Logitech world, where there are CEOs, VPs, Sales Directors, etc , postponing a release is not what they want to hear. Both philosophies (Slimdevices Logitech) are not compatible. Logitech will need to find its way to cope with this fact or they will start loosing customers. Myself, I bought my first SB3 after evaluation this system against Sonos. Slimdevices came out as a big winner for me, partially due to Slimdevices philosophy. I dont mind to be an involuntary beta tester from time to time. It is part of the Slimdevices experience. And I know I can always go back to a previous and stable system. I understand this is not the case for everyone and this is where Logitech needs to work on.
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