Took advantage of the Amazon deal so got the SB Radio for £118 (I have got over my mild disappointment about no longer being on the beta programme!). Ordered 26/12 evening, despatched 28/12, arrived 31/12, via Super Saver delivery.
First impressions: - Excellent packaging - Great feel to the product - nice and weighty - Nice screen - like the way that it's just like the Controller in look and feel now - Setup was a doddle: wifi fine, straight onto mysb.com (not sure why, as I have a server on 24/7, but...), firmware update, then onto server, another firmware update, sorted. - Nice that pressing button 4 brought up Radio 4 straight away, as it is programmed so for my Booms. - Separate volume control, thank you! Second impressions: - Screen is not too configurable yet, but the plugins for weather etc will no doubt come - Duh backlight! It's dark in my bedroom at night, why make it hard for me to find the buttons? I had intended to use this in the bedroom as a clock radio, moving the Boom currently there into the TV room to act as a radio. However, the lack of weather and backlit buttons means I have changed my mind, and will have the Radio in the TV room. This may reverse again once the Radio is more configurable and I know the buttons off by heart! Overall - good start, nice product. It does, however, make both Boom and Controller look expensive! -- adamslim You can't have too much music, but I do have too much hifi Rock/Excalibur/Decca, Linn Akurate DS, Audion Pre, 6B4G death traps, Lowther monsters Duet, Caiman, Audio Innovations Series 500, Heybrook Sextets Boom x 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73270
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