Multi room audio Sonos or what else?

["ianh1000" <ianh1000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

My faithful HP Digital entertainment center seems to have failed
after 8 good years work, I had been using this linked to a Kiosk and
other PC's to be able to pay music in different rooms. It all worked
OK for my but SWMBO found it to be unreliable and I was often
changing interfaces etc.

I am looking for a replacement and Sonos looks nice but a fair
investment for 3 rooms or more. I am also trying to reduce the power
that is used on a non stop basis, anyone any idea how much power the
Sonos devices use? Also what do these small NAS devices like Buffalo
use?

I have a comfort system, could i use an X10 Appliance module with
each Zone Player to turn them all on and off when the alarm is set? I
assume they don't need any gracefull shutdown.

Any other suggestions welcome.

Thanks
Ian




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