Personally I feel that a system that large (twelve Touches) would be unsustainable in the long run compared to the investment you make. By that I mean... if hardware starts failing, your entire system will at some point go into "degraded" mode; this could be the case when you still have 8 of them left. Then you need to swap over to Sonos anyway. Which to me wouldn't be an attractive situation in any case, so the question is just whether you want to invest 220 per item now, and in 8-10 years replace everything, or invest in Sonos now and only have to replace the failing components.
The way I feel it now I would personally go Sonos, but that is just my current impression of what I'd do. Myself I just bought 3 Touches to go with my Boom. But that's a bit different, even if one of them fails, I can probably keep using the system for at least 15 years. I'm that confident about that. As to the failing of Squeezebox... I think it only failed to be a mass market product, which was never its intended target audience. I believe Sonos uses Windows filesharing as its protocol? And maybe something for the Mac. Sonos is just way too expensive for me. I only bought that many Touches because prices have dropped to make it affordable to me. If you go to a Sonos reseller and ask him how does the Sonos communicate to the server, they won't be able to give you an answer - is my experience. They are selling stuff to people and they don't even know themselves how it works. Just THAT it works. Then you have buyers who realize after the fact that they need to keep their computer running and that that is slightly problematic to them. Oh yes, forgot to tell you that! ;-). Personally I don't like to buy something based on the promise that it works, without knowing the ramifications for my use scenario's now and in the future. And I feel Sonos is being sold on that premise that you don't have to worry about any of the details that WILL at some point start to bite you. Their sale strategy is one of "trust us, just trust us". But I don't trust vendors with closed systems that cost a zillion, probably won't exactly do what I want them to do, and keep me vendor-locked for quite some time. Funny, I just started thinking about fruit... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xenthar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188
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