I have also looked at Sonos before choosing Slimdevices (this is several years ago and at that time they were still called Slimdevices). Although the Sonos system looks nice, it had a couple of disadvantages compared to Slimdevices:
Sonos is quite expensive. Youre basically buying a streaming device and before you have 1 stremaer running, it will set you back a multitude of Slimdevice players. I find the build quality of Sonos inferior compared to slimdevices. The choice of players is limited compared to the Logitech line up. Sonos uses a mesh wireless system. And it runs in the same 2.4 G band as WiFi (two disatvantages here). Personaly I dont like this because their mesh network is closed. And you dont really need two wireless networks in your home network. Of course, these are my personal findings. Other people might think differently about it. The one disatvantage to the Logitech system is that it is more complex than the Sonas system in terms of setting it up. Sonos did a very good job at making it very user friendly to setup. The Logitech system requires a deeper technical knoledge. But once you get passed that it works very well. The fact that you do need (in some cases) an aditional server (SBS) provides good atvantages. Although people quite say that this is a disatvantage. As mentioned by others, SBS provides many advantages when browsing your library. I have used a dedicated server to run SBS several years ago. But since a couple of years Im running SBS on my NAS and that was a great improvement. I dont need to care about the dedicated server anymore. Now that SBS is running on my NAS it is a setup and forget about it situation. It is part of the infrastructure. -- Pascal Hibon 2 x SB3 and 1 x Boom - all wireless, ReadyNAS NVX running SBS, iPeng on iPod Touch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pascal Hibon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7969 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83424
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