Another Squeezebox Replacement Thread

There appears to be a general reluctance by the audiophile community to adopt Sonos since the demise of Squeezebox, but having used both for periods of years, the Sonos operating system and connected environment is head and shoulders above Squeezebox. The limiting factor is that only does 16/44, but there are companies that mod the Sonos connect to enable 24 bit if needed. I use a Sonos connect with a Vortexbox to store my music. After years of constant tinkering and software glitches with Squeezbox, I love the simplicity and reliability of Sonos and its every bit as good from a audio standpoint (at 16/44).

Hi Cruz,

I didn't realize that the audiophile community was reluctant to adopt Sonos. I assumed they were about on par with Squeezebox. Have you found a significant sonic difference between the two?

The lack of high-resolution capabilities may become more of an issue in the future, but I don't see it as a deal-breaker for now.

I haven't really had any problems with the Squeezebox software. It took a little effort to get it installed on my enterprise-grade distribution of Linux (this is NOT what most people run at home), although that actually went fairly smoothly. I've been running it for a decade 24/7 and it's always been very stable.

I'm just thinking that if I eventually move away from the Squeezeboxes, then I want to move to a next-generation system, not a contemporary of the Squeezebox. I'm talking about sophisticated AI-capable software that sees what you listen to and what's in your private music collection and hooks you up with Pandora and such to expose you to additional music. I'm looking for a high-resolution streaming system that can take advantage of my wired ethernet. And I'm looking for something that can fit well with whatever environment it's in, whether it's a top-of-the-line sounding unit that's connected to my big rig, or a wireless waterproof boombox for the deck. And it needs to be happy accessing over a terabyte of FLAC files on my Linux server.

When someone comes out with that, then I'm selling the Squeezeboxes. I just don't think Sonos is there yet.

Mapmap, I'm in Baltimore (city). We should hook up sometime. You're one of the people on Audiogon whose posts I generally agree with. (Scary, I know.)

Michael

Hi All, I'm looking for a way to play higher quality subscription radio. I tried with my computer but its XP and there are problems with qulaity and reliability (pauses pops etc). I enjoyed MOG quality but it was replaced by BEATs and the problems with MOG are still there (frops in and out). Any thoughts on hardware?

Michael yes I'd like that sometime.