Will I regret buying an SB1?

[Kyle]

I want to hook up another Squeezebox to a boombox or powered speakers to use on my deck. I've got an SB2 that currently works flawlessly on my network for streaming flac files. I'd love another SB2, but there are none on ebay. On either my front or back deck, I won't be much further from my router than the SB2 I'm using now. The display is not a problem. Will I be able to sync with an SB1, and will I be inviting network problems with its lower cache, non native support for flac and b rather than g capabilities?

[GoCubs]

I want to hook up another Squeezebox to a boombox or powered speakers to use on my deck. I've got an SB2 that currently works flawlessly on my network for streaming flac files. I'd love another SB2, but there are none on ebay. On either my front or back deck, I won't be much further from my router than the SB2 I'm using now. The display is not a problem. Will I be able to sync with an SB1, and will I be inviting network problems with its lower cache, non native support for flac and b rather than g capabilities?

Hey Kyle-

Since you've had a fair amount of posts in the past regarding Sirius and the SuperDateTime plugins... SB1's wont display the graphical icons in SuperDateTime (amongst other SB1 issues), and you wont benefit from the built-in WMA playback that now works with SB2's when streaming Sirius.

With the "spring white sale" and the coupon floating around you can pick up a SB3 for a good discount.

-Greg

[Kyle]

With the "spring white sale" and the coupon floating around you can pick up a SB2 for a good discount.

-Greg

Thanks for the heads-up, Greg. I really don't want a new SB3 for this application, particularly white, but I'd love to work out a deal with someone trading up.

[azinck3]

I want to hook up another Squeezebox to a boombox or powered speakers to use on my deck. I've got an SB2 that currently works flawlessly on my network for streaming flac files. I'd love another SB2, but there are none on ebay. On either my front or back deck, I won't be much further from my router than the SB2 I'm using now. The display is not a problem. Will I be able to sync with an SB1, and will I be inviting network problems with its lower cache, non native support for flac and b rather than g capabilities?

Here's an old thread that discusses the differences in the two models:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18691

Some of the info there is outdated but I think it's still a worthwhile conversation.

[joatca]

I want to hook up another Squeezebox to a boombox or powered speakers to use on my deck. I've got an SB2 that currently works flawlessly on my network for streaming flac files. I'd love another SB2, but there are none on ebay. On either my front or back deck, I won't be much further from my router than the SB2 I'm using now. The display is not a problem. Will I be able to sync with an SB1, and will I be inviting network problems with its lower cache, non native support for flac and b rather than g capabilities?

FWIW I have an SB3 and SB1, both running wireless, both used with FLAC (with SS set to transcode to WAV to the SB1). The SB1 runs fine alone but when I try to synchronize the two they drift badly after a few minutes. Sometimes both of them stop playing entirely. I have pretty good signal quality to both boxes (>80%) so I suspect an 802.1B-related bandwidth problem. I haven't wanted to sync them often enough to bother debugging it.