Re: Sonos Connect:Amp.

2016-10-02 Thread Dane Trethowan 
Wonderful stuff, I'm considering the purchase of one of these even 
though I won't be able to play my HD music collection with it, its still 
a convenient way to play Music Subscription services, right there all in 
one place.


I have to admit to being a little hesitant to purchase right away as 
Sonos has competition - and very good competition from the likes of Bose 
and Samsung - out there too so this whole line of streamers will evolve 
I reckon in a very short space of time



On 3/10/2016 5:12 AM, John Gurd wrote:

Hi Jim
I just saw your enquiry. I don't have the Sonos Conect:Amp, but I do have the Sonos 
Connect. So I don't know how good the Connect Amp is at powering Speakers and How 
they would sound. I got the Connect which feeds my Arcam AVR750 receiver with a 
digital signal which in turn powers a 5.1 set of B speakers. I use the 
Connect with Wi-Fi and listen to streaming media from Apple Music and Amazon. There 
is never any buffering or dropout. It sounds surprisingly excellent with these 
music sources. I expected it to sound inferior to my old Logitech Transporter but 
it doesn't. I never got around to listening to uncompressed music on it yet which I 
hope should sound even better. The only drawback may be that it can't play HD audio 
sources by which I mean anything sampled above 48000 or 24bit. But anything at CD 
quality is very good.

As the Connect:Amp has its own amplification stage I can't comment on that side 
of things from a personal experience. I will say that my other Sonos equipment 
i.e.: a stereo pair of the small Sonos Play 1 speakers sound very good for 
their size.

John

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane 
Trethowan
Sent: 29 September 2016 19:21
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: SonosConnectAmp.

I don t own one though I certainly will be looking at one in the coming days.
The Songs connect gets good write-ups and I m looking forward to using one for 
two reasons, I m looking forward to having a play with the Songs App and I m 
looking forward to using the digital output on my system with my DAC.


On 30 Sep. 2016, at 4:16 am, Jim Noseworthy 
 wrote:

HiGang:



Can anyone on this list comment about the quality of the Sonos Connect
Amp":?



Thanks all over the place.




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RE: Sonos Connect:Amp.

2016-10-02 Thread John Gurd 
Hi Jim
I just saw your enquiry. I don't have the Sonos Conect:Amp, but I do have the 
Sonos Connect. So I don't know how good the Connect Amp is at powering Speakers 
and How they would sound. I got the Connect which feeds my Arcam AVR750 
receiver with a digital signal which in turn powers a 5.1 set of B speakers. 
I use the Connect with Wi-Fi and listen to streaming media from Apple Music and 
Amazon. There is never any buffering or dropout. It sounds surprisingly 
excellent with these music sources. I expected it to sound inferior to my old 
Logitech Transporter but it doesn't. I never got around to listening to 
uncompressed music on it yet which I hope should sound even better. The only 
drawback may be that it can't play HD audio sources by which I mean anything 
sampled above 48000 or 24bit. But anything at CD quality is very good. 

As the Connect:Amp has its own amplification stage I can't comment on that side 
of things from a personal experience. I will say that my other Sonos equipment 
i.e.: a stereo pair of the small Sonos Play 1 speakers sound very good for 
their size.

John

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane 
Trethowan
Sent: 29 September 2016 19:21
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: SonosConnectAmp.

I don t own one though I certainly will be looking at one in the coming days.
The Songs connect gets good write-ups and I m looking forward to using one for 
two reasons, I m looking forward to having a play with the Songs App and I m 
looking forward to using the digital output on my system with my DAC.

> On 30 Sep. 2016, at 4:16 am, Jim Noseworthy 
>  wrote:
> 
> HiGang:
> 
> 
> 
> Can anyone on this list comment about the quality of the Sonos Connect 
> Amp":?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks all over the place.
> 
> 
> 

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