Well for me the question is not 'what will your next system be' but
'what will your first system be'?

I had been planning on setting up a system with a couple of Squeezebox
Touches, and getting a secondhand Mac Mini to run LMS on. That's after
previously considering a Sonos setup but disliking the price and the
lack of UI on the Sonos kit. 

Now I'm wondering about either:

- Airport Expresses instead of the Squeezebox Touches, and one or two
iPod touches with the Apple Remote app to control playback from iTunes
on the Mini

or

- iPod touches running iPeng and sitting more-or-less permanently in
docks, playing from LMS on the Mini

Right now there are refurb iPod Touches on the UK Apple Store for £129,
so the combo of Airport Express + iPod, or iPod + (say) Pure i20 dock,
is about the same price as the Squeezebox Touch. I’m not bothered about
online streaming services except iPlayer, and I can do that with the app
on the iPod. My music library is going to be in ALAC and I'm not worried
about anything other than 16/44.1kHz files.

I can see pluses and minuses to both my options above compared to the
Squeezebox Touch plan, but how will they compare for synchronisation,
and is the quality of the Airport Express audio out significantly worse
than the Squeezebox Touch?


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