With heartfelt thanks to all the HH`s who helped me directly as well as the countless number who posted their experiences on the forum, specifically but certainly not exclusively George and David, I have my Sonos working. It would be too redundant to repeat what has been said by those before me so I will suffice with my spinner is dead, long live my server.

I will put in one plug for Sonos. I spent some time trying to decide which brand of server to get. I decided on the Sonos partially for their customer service with my pre purchase inquiries. (Sooloos did not answer my questions.) Then when I had the inevitable start up glitch, due to Bill Gates, not Sonos, their technical support was fantastic. I highly recommend Sonos to non techies like me.

Now of course, given my sudden rise is technical sophistication, I want to upgrade and improve. Thanks to the HH2 I believe that I have a bit of an understanding. There are 2 areas where I could upgrade. I learned from Philip that the 808, without the apodizing filters blows away the G91. Therefore there has to be what I will call the Rhonda magic green box, which is proprietary to Meridian that would improve my system. Secondly it has become obvious that the apodizing filters add a lot.

I learned at the HH2 that there is a solution available today: run a server through an 808 to give 98% of the sound quality of the 808. Now I did ask with a Sooloos rather than generic server but I think that bells and whistles aside, the sound would be the same. This is just too expensive a solution with too many inelegant wasted features for me. I also understand that I could get the apodizing filters by running my Sonos through a HD621 with all the adaptation discussed on another thread, but this jury rigging sounds like it has some downsides and as well it is asking for trouble given my level of technical computer expertise.

So firstly is my technical understanding correct? Secondly from the hints and things not said at HH2 would it be fair to assume that if I wait 6 months to a year that Meridian will come out with an affordable solution between my Sonos and G68 that will give me 9?% of the 808 sound?

Home: DSP8000's, DSP5500HC, DSP5200's, 861v6>v8+ID41, MC200, HD621.
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Hawaii: Meridian F80 with i80, iPod Classic 160GB.