[timmorris]

I should have mine in a couple of days (to use with an SB3. I'll report back.) I can't imagine it being any worse than the Nokia 800 web browser which doesn't have nearly the same lag as they describe in the article which is less than a second when changing volume and 2-3 seconds when selecting and playing a different album. SC 7.0 seems faster than SB 6.5. Maybe they had a heavily loaded PC. I have my music sitting on a Windows 2003 server whixh handles email, file sharing and various other tasks for half a dozen users. SC uses hardly any system resourses - I've tested it with 4 hardware and 3 software players running and response is still fine.

The description of the Sonos using more bandwidth when streaming the same internet audio to more than one player is a bit misleading. If you are streaming the same station to two players you just have to sync them and they use the same stream. I use Alien BBC rarely but spend most of my time listening to music ripped from CDs in FLAC lossless format. The one thing they don't mention is sound quality. A very high proportion of the members of the Unofficial Meridian forum have junked £1000 CD transports in favour of SB3s, but none of them have Sonos. The SB3 (and the duet) and flac gives you better sound quality than most disc players when used with an offboard DAC.

Tim