Originally Posted by Ronnie Hurley
Originally Posted by Ian
If you want Sooloos on 861, I guess you need to fork out another �2k.
Don't think this is the case

The Sooloos Card for the 808/861 is to allow you to ACCESS your Sooloos System from a DIFFERENT Room

In your main Music Room, you can Input your Sooloos thru the standard Speakerlink Input and then control it in the "normal" way

No imagine if you have e.g. a "Family" Room where you still want to access your Sooloos (in Sonos terms, think of Zones) then you would put the Sooloos Card into your 861, which allows you to control your Sooloos system remotely from that room using your MSR+ (only for currently playing Playlists however, according to the various CES Releases)
The comment was about the price difference between tradeups on 808 and 861 not about the technical differences between how to get Sooloos into a 861.

The 808.3 contains the Sooloos card/function by default, the 861 doesn't. So the price difference can be explained by the 808 having the additional cost of the card already included, where as with 861, the cost of the card would be an additional 2k or whatever it officially costs. Thus the trade-ins for the 861 and 808 are in the same ballpark pro rata when the addition of the optional Sooloos card is added to the 861 is taken into account.

Of course there are many other ways of getting Sooloos into 861 without this card which don't cost anything.

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