Sooloos - the ultimate music server?

[jester]

very interesting i stumbled across this a little while ago thougt it might be of interest

http://www.olive.us/home.html

[jester]

also this
http://www.hiaudio.co.uk/MV_prod.htm

[Filterlab]

Buy an iMac.

[Marco]

Just received this email from Sooloos:

Hi Marco,

Thank you for reaching out to contact us and for your interest in Sooloos. We now have a distributor for the UK with whom we have recently begun working with. We are most pleased to be working Absolute Sounds, the leading A/V distribution and consultancy business in the UK. I will give you their details so that you may contact them for local pricing and purchasing arrangements, and I shall also pass your inquiry on to them.

Absolute Sounds

58 Durham Road

London, SW20 0TW

United Kingdom

Ph: +44 (0)20 89713909

E: ricardo@absolutesounds.com

W: http://www.absolutesounds.com/

In the mean time, you may be interested in some further information about Sooloos. Here is a link to a review of Sooloos that will give you a good overview by an independent source and a very thorough explanation of the functionality of our User Interface. The review is typical of the excited response we are getting from those that experience Sooloos. http://www.sooloos.com/press/Sooloos-ToneAudio.pdf . TONEAudio publication can be visited at http://www.tonepublications.com/TA-mag.htm .

There is a lot of great information at http://www.sooloos.com/www/downloads/assets.html . Be sure to look at the link for Onesheets/Datasheets that will give you a full explanation of the system and each component and its function.

All very interesting and helpful, but if the UK distributor is Absolute Sounds you can guarantee it'll cost just as much as Mike said earlier, as old Ricardo boy likes a nice mark-up! I'll pass on that one, thanks, and if I decide to go for a Sooloos I'll order it in on-line from the States

Marco.

[Peter Stockwell]

I would import it direct from the States and have it marked as a 'gift', and pay no duty or taxes just like I done with the Yaqin I imported from China. Bugger paying any dealer mark-up, too!

No guarantee you'll escape duty, as far as I know.

[Mike]

No guarantee you'll escape duty, as far as I know.

On something of that value I would pretty much expect to be 'caught'.

Ouch!

[Peter Stockwell]

It's only happened once, but I've had to pay import duty and VAT on 2 Cds that I imported! so even teensy weensy amounts can be levied. Frankly, I'm not that bothered about paying duties, I don't like it, but you pay when you buy within your VAT zone, so why not when you buy outside ?

US retail prices are generally stated without any tax, and when you there, there's always an extra mark up. Sales "out of State" can often, but not always, escape sales tax. People oustide the EEC buying from Europe pay a price without vat.

[Marco]

Well, chaps, I paid zippo when I imported the Yaqin into the UK

And with quite a few other things, too

I guess I can't help being a lucky f*cker

Marco.