It is friggin strange to be threatened to be invaded by "the leader of the free world"... Land of the free my ass. Throwing illegals out and at the same time planning an invasion of a free country

On that note, I am actually from Greenland and we absolutely hate the idea of the United States invading Greenland

But isn't the real challange to see how we run out of California?

I wish BluOS was paying me, i am working a place that sells both, so its not that i dont have contact with these brands, but i do play with both systems alot. Sonos has overhauled its UI many times, and customers do complain to us every time. They even changed the app and made users brick their components.
Bluesound is a product with speakers, amps, soundbars, and more, and those components all maybe except the subwoofer, sounds better than the equalent Sonos component. its easily demonstrated if you have them side by side. and most customers agree. Play a song on a Sonos, play the same on the Bluesound, it sounds better.
And then - if you want even better sound - the base software works on brands like NAD and Dali.and thats awesome. Really awesome.
When i have to deal with unhappy customers, because Sonos have changed something major again, or made dem brick their fully functional products, just to make them upgrade their inventory, of course i get tired of Sonos, they are not in the corner of the customer, or the reseller, theyve proven that again and again. So the public discourse is very grounded in facts. Most customers of course accept this, but some change, for Bluesound, HEOS or just for any Airplay2 component.

How often do you listen to the oscilloscope?

Many things have been shown in tests, both ways, mostly showing that the tests don't work. Its been shown that most people who only listen to mp3s like that sound, because thats what the ear is used to. But in my simple test working in a hifi store, most everybody will know the difference after just a few minutes of listening.
And again, the technical data of the recording has much less of an impact than the quality of the recording, i would much rather listen to a good recording in 16bit 320kbps mp3 than a bad recording at 24bit 6600kbps. Crap-in-crap-out as they say.

Its nice and all, that you know how digital works, but sound isn't digital.It is as you might know analog, and it the process of making a digital signal into analog is not trivial, and everything in the process can and usually does influence the result (if you have a system that has the resolution to show it.Things like Jitter, error rate, emi, rfi, powersupply stability has so much influence on the datastream. This is why a powersupply for a high end networking switch is kind of expensive, digital is not just digital. Just like you sounding smart, doesnt mean you are,

For most people this is more than enough, but people who lik good stereos and train their ears, there are some benifits to this. Having a good recording rather than a bad recording does way more than using 16 or 24 bits. But a great recording in 24 bits. thats just wonderful to listen to. Again, for people who has the system with the resolution to show the difference and with ears trained to it. For the rest, its not important

Having worked with both Sonos, Bluesound and HEOS i have to say that Sonos is so far behind. They are slow in adaption of new technology, makes UI overhauls frequently, lacks simple features that the competition has much better. Especially BluOS/Bluesound is so easy, simple to use, even advanced pairing situations are simple. as a user i would be FURIOUS with the many big UI changes they've made, and the way the handled their old products and adds commercials inside their app.
BluOS app is simple clean, easy and keeps the same look.
And BluOS sounds better.

Isnt that what they say about every other new battery technology?

I have had some issues with a Dell laptop, that gave off high pitched sounds when using the disk - but only while on battery. i don't know if it was the SSD it self, the controler or the LED that flashes when the disk is used, but while a very low squeek, it was still annoying.

If the embedded system is running Windows CE, then YES! DIE NOW. otherwise, i can't see why

If they would stop changing my settings of Most Recent to Top News every time i look away and of course fix the chat windows to something useful, then that would be fine - if i cant understand what my friends are posting, then its probably not for me anyway.
Knowing how other things got implemented, this is probably what will happen:
The service will be offered for some users, quickly followed by offering it to all users, whoever accepts are stuck with it and can do nothing to switch it off, and despite what they think all of a sudden EVERYBODY gets that feature.

I see iPhone users written all over this, flaming not inteded.

yes, it is infact just seconds younger than the classic "pull my finger" joke