Some interesting points in the original few posts about lack of and/or need for clear/simple documentation. As an engineer myself, I have to admit that 'reading the manual' is tantamount to an admission of defeat. But I think I'm the exception, not the rule... I had a nice experience recently doing a clean install of Windows Vista Ultimate. After installing SC & pointing it to my music folder lo and behold, there was Transporter conncted wirelessly with no need to reenter any WEP encryption or anything else. After scanning the music, it just played as before on Xp. (Yes, I had a little issue with MaCafee, but that was minor).
So, no installation issues....no Network issues, no wireless issues, and yet, all too often we read here about one problem after another in these areas. And this brings me to my dilemma here in Phuket. A friend is looking at spending some serious money in setting up a villa with wireless music. He doesn't know what he wants, but has lots of money. Someone is pushing the Sonos system to him. Do I push Transporter, Squeezbox and/or Duet? Well for a starter Sonos has an agent here, Logitech has none as far as I know, so + 1 for Sonos. Today I had a look at the Sonos web site & it has a certain kind of 'non-techy' appeal. Looks like it's just plug & play. I guess that's + 2 to Sonos. (even given my easy experience with Vista). I'm the kind of guy that takes a perverse pleasure in the number of wires at the back of my system and could rewire from scratch without any 'manual'. My friend has every wire labelled not 'technically' but 'third plug from left, second row down'. And he wants all his wires hidden. Sonos has this kind of Bose, Ipod 'Mr Clean' feel to it somehow (even my wife knows not to use the word doze in our house..). So, + 3 to Sonos. I have to admit that my friend probably represents a bigger slice of the market than techy folks like me. So he'll probably end up with a Sonos system & never know what he is missing in terms of eg. Transporter audophile qualities... I will try to push the Logitech solution, but I think it will prove to be an uphill battle.. Dan -- chinablues ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chinablues's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7955 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49085 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
