I meant to write this as soon as I got my Duet (last Friday) but am only just now pulling myself away from it long enough to write anything ;-).
A bit of background -- my only experiencing with streaming audio was with a Netgear MP101 going to a J. River Media Center backend. I have a library of just over 45,000 songs. The MP101 experience was frustrating.. a lot of times it worked but rarely survived an entire evening without having to reboot either the MP101 itself or Media Center... not exactly a real plug and play solution. Just before Christmas I was about to pull the trigger on a Sonos system -- and just as I was getting ready, they decided to no longer sell directly to Canada... and with no distributor near me it looked like I was without options. Ironically, someone on the Sonos forum pointed me in this direction, mentioning the upcoming "Jive" release. So I found myself here, reading everything I could. The price looked right and unlike the Sonos, it looked like I'd have no issues with Library size etc. Eventually, after installing SC7 and getting up to speed (and opening a couple of QA issues) I jumped in for a pre-order. So now that I have my Duet, I can tell you it exceeds all expectations. The pictures don't do this thing justice -- it is much nice looking than I've seen in pictures... overall, the build quality is excellent. The experience is better than expected too. I find the web interface to be a little slow and clunky (but very impressive given what one has to work with in a browser) but the controller is an absolute joy to use... speedy and responsive. I've been tinkering and playing with this thing for four days now and have had no glitches at all... it just works. I love the community aspect -- the open source server, the active forums and the responsive bug tracking system and QA people. I opened three issues prior to the SC7 release and on each occasion, emails flew back and forth until we found the root issues... excellent. To top it all off, when the pre-order shipments got delayed, you guys made a very classy move and shipped for free! So thanks guys for an excellent product and a fantastic experience. Since Friday, three other people in my office have placed orders... so I hope this thing proves to be smash success for you guys. Best regards, Jonathan -- JHC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JHC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14979 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44669 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
