Re: Sonos or Squeeze

["Scott" <jslewis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys

I have a number of squeezebox duets and have recently purchased for the
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ched a Danish Sumoh S30 amp http://www.sumoh.dk/ which I purchased from
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p://www.wifimedia.eu/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=3Dtinyamp&=
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I'm really pleased, it supplies DC power to the squeezebox, so no need for
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an additional A/C outlet and when the amp detects no music playing, it
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matically goes into standby, all works brilliantly it only has digital
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t, both optical and coaxial, so ideally suited to the squeezebox.  They
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o do a higher power output version the S60, but for a kitchen, the S30 is
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ore than adequate, I hooked it up to a Monitor Audio stereo ceiling
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and I'm really pleased with the whole installation, the sound is great.  N=
ot the cheapest solution out there (=A3200 inc. shipping for the amp), but
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the neatest, short of Logitech producing an integrated amp version
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ox, but then not sure what the sound quality would be like, Logitech
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exactly a HiFi brand.

Anyway I recommend the Sumoh S30 and wifimedia were excellent, delivery
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k a little while, but I believe that's because the manufacturers can't
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up with demand at the moment.

I'm also using the Android "Squeeze Commander" app to control the
squeezebo=
xes on my android phone and I have to say it's brilliant, in some ways,
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ter than the Logitech Duet controller,  Certainly easier to set up, so
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in fact there wasn't any set up! My HTC Desire Z was already connected to =
my WiFi network, I installed the app from the Android market, fired it up
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nd it just worked, no setting up server IP addresses or anything, it just
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orked!  This is how software should be written! Wish the big software
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s would take note!

Cheers,

Scott

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Brian Smith <briview@...> wrote:
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> Hi Kyle
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> From my experience there is usually a slight 'blip' when devices join
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leave a group. I don't find it too much of an issue as zone configs aren't
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that dynamic.
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> On the question of Sonos vs Squeeze; my main complaint on the Squeeze
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ge is the lack of amp integrated zone player. This forces an external amp
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nd introduces amp switching issues.  Having said that my current plan is
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stick with it.
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> HTH
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> Brian
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> On 2 May 2011, at 00:46, Kyle Gordon <kyle@...> wrote:
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> > So the time has come, and I'm considering my options.
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> > Does Squeezecenter still introduce a pause into the music when a
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> > device joins the group? Or is synchronised playback seamless
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> > uninterrupted when a device joins or leaves?
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> > I know Sonos can do this...
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> > Cheers
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> > Kyle
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