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Anyway... is there ANYTHING out there that replaces these boxes yet??


Yes http://www.sonos.com/

Given that Hugo owns a Sonos setup it can't be bad. Not nearly as cheap a solution though.

I think I'll be switching to Sonos at some point.

Yeah, the Sonos seem like the closest. I've checked out that Homolies page a few times - he's got most of the info out there condensed. The thing that there isn't a replacement for yet (that I've seen):

Rio has display & control on unit - very handy for WAF (wife acceptance factor) - no need to hunt for remote
Syncs between units
Has on-board Amplifier (that's actually pretty good)

Sonos has all that, but at what cost (yikes!). I think it would cost about $2000 to replicate what I have in 5 Rio's. <gulp>. Some day, when they're OOB and closing these things out, however... :-)

I just picked up a Tungsten C for $50 to use the Trio lite interface to control my Rio's. $50 kludge is better than $350 elegent at the moment... :-)

-Dan