upstatemike;518172 Wrote: > Is it really? An SB3 is $300 and the Sonos preamp models are $350. Add a > decent "auto power on" amp to the SB3 and you won't be far off the $500 > price of the Sonos amplified model. The Sonos Controller at $350 is more > than the SBC at $250 but it is also a touch screen unit with proprietary > radio linking to the nearest zone player so you get tangible performance > uplifts for the cost difference. > > It's true that Sonos doesn't have anything in their product line to > compete with the cheap and frustrating, non staic IP configuring, no GUI > setup, SBR, but I'm not sure that this is a market niche that any > company should be chasing. When comparing the rest of the Squeezebox > line I really don't see where the price delta is all that dramatic.
For me the price difference was dramatic and a big factor in my choice. Using list prices for comparison on the assumption that both are available a comparable street price discounts the Sonos solution was $1,135 more than the SqueezeBox setup, including the $9.99 for iPeng. Probably add another $99 to that - for a Zone Bridge. I could potentially wire in one of the BR100's to the router in my office, but would be a pain. My Squeeze set up is below in my sig field, the comparable Sonos set up would be 1 S5 (closest thing to the Boom), a Sonos Bundle 250 (don't need the ZP120, but the bundle is $48 cheaper than buying 2 ZP90's and a controller) and three ZP90's for a total list of $2,445. So yes - my price did include the SBR's which I found to be inexpensive, easy to setup and un-intrusive rather than cheap and frustrating. List price for my setup is $1,310. Already have a server that I was using for media, so that's a wash. Real world numbers, real world economics, not based on the assumption that existing products (SBR) are excluded. If the SBR isn't for you, than the pricing delta would only be $335 less than the Sonos. In my case I already had stereo kit everywhere except the kitchen, where I've put the Boom, so amplified players were undesirable. -- JeffHart "You know, I'm all for progress. It's change I object to." Mark Twain SBRx5, 1 Boom, 1 Controller, 1 iPhone w/iPeng ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JeffHart's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23791 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75341 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
