Logitech Touch vs Duet

Can you use the duet remote with the logitech touch unit?

Yes. That's the way I do it in my system. (I even sold my Duet Receiver and just kept the Controller.) It is rare that I play music directly from the Touch's screen.

Anyone that has owned a Duet knows the grief. SONOS is a superior product by leaps and bounds compared to Logitech solutions.

Strange. I owned a Duet (and still own the Controller) and had no big issues.

I now have a Touch in my main system, a SB3 in my second system, a SB Radio and the Controller that works with them all whether synced or playing separately. It handles my 47,000 plus song library without hassle.

While I've had no big issues, I know of no product ever made that has a 100% satisfaction rate. A quick visit to the Sonos forums showed people have a number of wireless connectivity issues, problems adding music, crossfade and muting issues, firewall issues, missing libraries and so on.

In other words, it sounds a lot like the same problems one sees on the Slimdevices forum.

My apologies for not having the problems you expect me to have. Guess I'll have to work a little harder on screwing things up. ;-)

For a slightly different take, I have several Slimdevices. I currently have a Touch, a SB3 and a Radio. I owned a Duet (and still have the Controller and use it with the other players). I also auditioned a Transporter some years back. (The reason the Transporter is going out of production is the display modules used are no longer made.)

I've not had any particular connectivity issues with any of the devices. Early on the Duet firmware was a bit flakey but subsequent versions solved those issues for me.

The Touch has had some growing pains as they've fine tuned the firmware but the Touch is a more complex device with its internal server than their earlier models.

I did not buy the Touch for either the display or the touch screen capability. I bought it because the sound quality is so good that I was able to sell my external DAC (a Lavry DA-10). I moved my SB3 to my second system, sold the Duet Receiver, and use the Touch in my main system. I've been very pleased the the results.

The one item I can't comment on is the use of the Touch as a stand-alone server. Out of curiosity I experimented with that right after I received the Touch and had problems scanning the drive. However, my original intention was to continue using my external Linux server so haven't since bothered to try the USB drive directly to the Touch even though we're a couple of firmware updates down the road.

I'd recommend the Touch. There are some apps for wireless handhelds that make for a sophisticated remote if you want something fancier than the included Touch remote and don't want to buy a Duet Controller by itself.

Of course you could also get a Sonos system and save yourself a lot of grief.

Just curious - from what grief would I be saving myself?