I see where the harmony remote would work for the squeeze box 3; however, the duet has a remote with an LCD screed instead of the display on the main unit itself. The duet remote has the art cover work, artist info and song list. The Harmony One may be capable of displaying this info, not sure. Squeeze Box definitely has solid products; I just like the idea of having the display on my large screen HDTV. If I were using for music only I would probably get the duet.

I have a laptop that I rip my CD's to the lossless WMA files to then run a Behringer U-Control from the laptop USB. The Behringer box has a optical audio out that I connect to the 970. No need for a monitor as I can look at the laptop screen or I could runn a DV cable to the 970 and see the menu, pics or video on TV. The sound quality is very good.

I noticed that there are two different audio devices that show up in the advanced speaker config. One is the Behringer USB, which is what the laptop chooses when I plug the usb cable into the center USB port (in the back of laptop). And USB Audio CODECS which is used if I plug into the other two USB ports. The USB Audio CODECS is a bit better.