I know of a professional home audio/home theater installer in my area that interestingly enough installed tons of duet systems for his customers. I know one of his customers. He essentially installs these as a PANDORA system and the customers don't even realize that they could use it for their own music. In most cases, he ALSO installs an ipod or iphone cradle attached to another input on the stereo system.
So his customers are using pandora and the CONTROLLER for that, and if they want their OWN music, they insert ipod into cradle connected to stereo and choose an alternative input source on their receiver. Yes, this is sorta lame in terms of not exploiting the SB system. On the other hand, the customers don't know any better. They are happy to have pandora throughout the house, and happy to play music from their ipods. Synch in the house is created because the installer has put speakers in all the rooms where sound is wanted and connected ALL these speakers back to the receiver (and perhaps a speaker switch that is clearly labled). And he's put volume controls next to light switch in each room to which that room's speakers are connected. So the user can listen to anything from the home system (which is typically the home theater system as well) by selecting which room the user wants sound in. The speakers in the various rooms are not audiophile, just OK. And of course we can look at this in amazement and think that this is equivalent to buying a BMW and then putting it in neutral and having friends push us around to move from place to place. But as have others have mentioned, there are lots of people that don't pay that much attention to their music stuff. If I put a gun to their head they couldn't tell me the difference between an mp3 vs AAC p.s. My friend was amazed when I was able to program her mysb.com account to add a number of internet radio stations she likes to her favorites (radioparadise). I offered to set up her own music to also play on the SB, but she didn't want to be bothered. She said "why do I need that, it is already on my ipod." -- garym Location 1: Vortexbox Appliance 6TB (1.10) > SbS 7.6.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) Location 2: Win7(64) laptop > LMS 7.7.0 > Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio and laptop) Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver Controlled at both locations with: iPhone (iPeng), iPad (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Additional Tagging - mp3tag ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91532 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
