Squeezemenicely wrote: > @erland > > Trouble with multiroom systems is, you buy into an entire ecosystem. So > if you spend money and want to expand your collection of devices you > need to trust that the system will be around in the future. > > Of all the companies selling (moreless affordable) systems Sonos is the > one I would trust to still be around in the future. They have been > around for long and are really very visible on the market. > I completely understand your thoughts, if your main priority is to be able to enhance your system in the future, even if it isn't the best one on the market, Sonos is probably the best choice.
Squeezebox had been around for a long time until Logitech decided to stop selling them but the advantage with Sonos is that it's their only business so it's probably unlikely that they will stop selling their devices, at least as long as they don't get acquired by a bigger company that changes their strategy... You will always have this issue when the software and hardware comes from the same company, the only real way to get around that issue is to have a documented protocol and allow third party hardware and software vendors to integrate with it, that way you aren't dependent on a single company. At the moment the only such solution available to the public which I'm aware of is UPnP but parts of the UPnP standard is really not optimized for usage with music. Future will tell if somebody comes up with a multi vendor solution which is more optimized for usage with music. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97440 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
