SOtM player?

There is a old saying....you get what you pay for.

I never understood why people opt for players with crappy user interface. Why it is not an important consideration when selecting a player?

IMHO, Lumin and Aurender players offers the best app experience and superlative sound outside Roon.

It works perfectly as a Roon endpoint.

I'm not pouring money into Roon. Actually Magna HiFi sells SOtM and helped me out better than the company "expert."
I've never understood why people brag and goad about spending more than they or we have to for equivalent SQ.
Sold my CD player today. Movin' on up.

cheap sh*t in the streaming world ain't for noobs

unless its sonos and blue sound - pretty much idiot proof

I sent it back. On their dime.  Hold the kimchee.
It took 70 minutes to get it to play for 5 min. B4 it disconnected.
Slower than Windows 3.0 on a 386 to boot.
My SHD Studio is cheap AND it works well, AES-EBU into my DAC.
It only took 3 pages to get it to SING.
Complete with DSP and a calibrated mic

I guess that makes you WRONG.

 I love my Magna Mano Ultra with i2s out and internal LPS.  $940.00 delivered, DHL Air.
Did I spend too much?

Or are you WRONG again?

But then, they include a customized, tested, dedicated player embedded.
SOtM just gives theirs a bad installation of LMS that interferes with other players.
The Studio player OS is better that BluOS anyway to go along with +SQ.
Sonos is overpriced for poor SQ.
Definitely for idiots.

I've used SOTM for over a year with no issues, it's not that difficult.

SOtM makes great stuff. More kimchee please.

I'll add to the chorus: SOtM makes top-notch products. That said, I have only used them with Roon, which I consider essential to managing a collection of 12K albums.

sonos used for digital out is ok depending on your dac's ability to clean a jittery signal

or a w4s reclocker for $300 solves the problem, gives 96k output (first mqa unfold) a very clean nice sounding bit stream

Big deal.
I ask for help and get nothing but snarks.
Bottom line is none of you brainiacs could make it work here.
Either it was broken or their company support was defective because they couldn't do it either. I did find out from a dealer that it IS indeed slower than a cheap Raspberry Pi.
You can have it. Too slow for me.

@Fuzztone,

After reading some of your posts/replies etc, is it so hard to be chill?  No offence meant.

SOtM plays Roon. Nothing else worked. Their support couldn't get it to work. Either it was broken or they are. I just got a Pro-Ject S2 Ultra Streamer today. Everything works, sounds great. As a bonus I was surprised it has 16Gb onboard and a ripping program that works with portable drives I already have.
Roon ready, Tidal, Qobuz, Amazon& Spotify. Front and rear USB-A's that it auto indexes. I already have a Pro-Ject Power Box 4, stepped it down to 18.00 v.
Excellent stuff.