![]() Like any hi-fi system, the performance is mostly dictated by the speakers you use. That gives you two alternatives: you can situate the first Sonos in your home near anĮthernet connection, or you can buy a $50 Sonos Bridge. While the others communicate with that one wirelessly.) (Think of it likeĪ DECT cordless phone system: one base station needs to be plugged into the wall jack, One wired connection between your home network and a Sonos unit. The drawback is that there needs to be at least Not limited by your home's Wi-Fi network. To one another via a proprietary wireless mesh system. ![]() The Sonos family of products is designed as a multiroom audio system, and connect High-resolution 24-bit files: it's CD-quality only. Small subset of people at present (myself included), the Sonos system doesn't play back Vorbis, WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless, and FLAC. Want to keep their PCs powered on all the time.įor local music, nearly all popular file formats are supported: MP3, WMA, AAC+, Ogg It also supports many NAS servers, for those who don't Support streaming from PCs and Macs running the iTunes software, so your home musicĬollection is always accessible. And while, as mentioned above,Īpple's iTunes Match isn't supported (thanks, as always, to Apple), the Sonos does Last.fm, Slacker, Rdio, Songza, TuneIn Radio, Rhapsody, iHeartRadio, Wolfgang's Vault,Īupeo, Stitcher, and - most recently - Amazon Cloud Player.įor those keeping score, that's nearly every cloud music service out there. Sonos' tagline is "Stream All The Music On Earth" - and the company's products comeĬompatible with nearly every popular music service: Mog, Pandora, Spotify, Sirius XM, Sonos is more about focusing on doing one thing as well as possible. While that may seem limited in scope, the Unlike some of the more well-known media streamers on the market, the Sonosĭevices are audio-only, no video. Instead, you'll either need to unlock your phone and launch the SonosĪpp, boot up your PC, or finally - heaven forbid! - walk over and press the Mute One feature I kept wishing for while using the Sonos was an IR port, usually in order Or you can opt to go with the wireless Sonos Sub Last in the list of connections is the subwoofer-out, which can be used to connect to a For speaker connections, the Sonos includes solid, spring-loaded speaker jacks at theīack for connecting banana plugs or bare wires - though not spades.
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