I've owned a SB for over a year and, after my wife and daughter, it would be the next thing I grab in a house fire. Having said that, my bro in law recently asked for my help setting up a complete home audio system. He has a designer home and wanted clean, sexy and easy to use. After a lot of soul searching, I helped him purchase and install a frightfully expensive SONOS system that included multiple controllers and base units. It was effortless to set up and sounds fine. He loves it. It gave me a lot of time to play with the system directly. I found the controller to be cute, but surprisingly choppy in its response. One of the controllers needed to be reset several times a day...and I recommended he send it back. I hated the software installed on his "host" computer. Despite the occasional oddities of SS, I'll take it any day over what Sonos is passing off. After playing with the Sonos for a day, my brother in law asked how to create a custom play list. Well, just try doing some creative searching on the Sonos software. It can barely be done from the controller. I was forced to install Media Center on his computer, taught him how to really search his database of music, create an interesting playlist, export it, and save it in a folder that the Sonos would search (oh yeah, and then have Sonos rescan the library). I could go on, but my sense was that the Sonos was for music listeners and the SS/SB is for music lovers. Sometimes a prix fix meal is fun, but generally I like to order a la carte.
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