Installation was breeze took a total of 45 minutes...read the first 15 pages of the manual then gave up because the ergonomics are wonderful -- most intuitive product and best documented product I have ever owned, certainly very anti-Meridian in this regard.

In fact, at one point I was actually getting frustrated with the manual because of the painstaking detail of their description...that said, very good for the novice or computer unfriendly.

Not to sound like an advertisment but the configurability and flexibility is excellent and, in fact, more than I would ever need...all this while being terribly simple to use...

What about the sound you say...well I spect 4 hours listening to about 15 CDs in my home theater and could not -- and I do hate to say this given the money I spent on my 800V4 DVD player -- tell the difference other than, and this is a biggie, I am going tobe listening to a lot more and, this final point, has nothing to do with Sonos byt music servers in general..

With that there are two points that I need to make...

1. Although once up and running the ease of use is fantastic the time it takes to rip (I am using Apple Lossless) one's music collection and properly tag same is huge and MUCH MUCH greater than I thought.

2. A real challenge was setting up the NAS...horrible documentation....horribly unintutive for a non computer power Windows user (i.e. the concept that a shared folder can only be created used drive management software was foreign)...that said, very cool once understood and running, even created shared folders for picturs, etc. for my family given that by NAS is 2TB.

Hope that helps...anything else let me know (and, inc ase you did not get it...I am thrilled with the product)...


Audio: Triad Monitor Golds, Surround Golds, Silver Subwoofers; Procella P-18 Subwoofer; QSC DCA 16622s, 1644, 3422, BASIS 922uz; ADA MACH IV B
Other: APC S-15s; Crestron
Sources and Video: Ran out of characters .....................