Reviews of Sonos, Cambridge Audio 640H and Apple Airport Express Needed!

Hi
I'd give the Sonos a 4 for ease of use, it dropped a point because of the lack of search function. If you want to find a partucular track the best you can do is "power scroll" to the first letter of the name (the 640H does at least have a search facility although without a USB connected keyboard it is a bit of a pain to use.) One of the things the guy at Simply Sonos got me to to do was just "play" for the first 5 mins which really only proves that apart from initial setup you don't need a manual at all to work the thing - which to me is the sign of a well made user interface (just look at the tiny manual you get with an iPod)
Hope that helps.

[andrew1810]

Hi,

Thanks for that, it was the one section I was missing.

I have put them online here: http://www.audiofi.co.uk/reviews/

Still work in progress, but they are all there at least.

Andrew

[steve-p]

Hi Andrew,

One small point regarding the Hifidelio Pro. It does have iTunes support. You have it listed as not having it.

Steve

[AMc]

Likewise MP3>iTunes>Twonky>Netgear MP101 works really well - no support for iTunes music store content or AAC I suppose.

Might be worth indicating that there are ways to get any of the uPnP players to work with iTunes as a library but not DRM'ed or proprietary formats?

[brookheather]

Another small point on the Hifidelio:

Can copy files to an ipod, but unfortunately not to a PC

You can copy to a PC if you change the Samba configuration file on the box - I realise this needs a bit of technical ability but is pretty easy for anyone familiar with UNIX/Linux.

- Simon.