Hi Craig, I don't know if it is Voiceover accessible or not, but do you already own compatible hardware? I had a quick look at this online and it seems like Bose is trying to jump onto the Sonos bandwagon. I didn't check pricing for the various speakers, but while Bose is not exactly a high-end brand, it also isn't cheap and unless you already bought the speakers/players, I would highly recommend that you take a good look at Sonos. I think they are still the leader with this sort of stuff and with respect to the variety of product they are offering. Sonos players start at $199 for the Play 1, $299 for the Play 3 and $399 for the Play 5. These are all self-contained players with high quality Class D amplifiers. The Play 1 has 1 speaker, the Play 3 has 3 speakers and the Play 5 has 5 and sounds awesome. You can buy 2 of any of these and set them up as a stereo pair for even better sound. Then there is of course the Sonos's surround sound/TV solution, the Playbar. It is not cheap at $700, but it's amazing given it's size. It is about 3 feet long, but not very high and deep, but it contains a total of 9 speakers and really sounds great. You can add the Sonos Sub which is also $700 and it's even more amazing. It is about the size of a midsize computer tower, but it weighs 36 pounds and the base it produces is truly outstanding. If you want to complete a 5.1 surround system, you can add 2 Play 1 speakers as rear speakers. I just bought the Playbar and Sub to see if I could live with the step down from my Sony receiver and rather good front, centre and rear speakers. But I wanted to de-clutter my living room and while the Playbar doesn't produce quite the sound stage and separation that you get with a pair of high-end speakers which are 8 or 10 feet apart, it really is very nice and I am going to sell my Sony receiver. I just ordered the 2 Play 1 speakers to complete the surround sound setup now that I decided to keep it. Sonos has an amazing 45-day money back guaranty so you really can't go wrong to try it and they support way more music services than Bose. Their customer service is outstanding and while it took a while to get them to that point, they now have done an outstanding job in making the Sonos app fully accessible and it's a joy to use it. Also setting up my Playbar and Sub was just one of these Wow experiences. Steve Jobbs used to always say how Apple products were just like magic and his "It just works" was quite famous. Well, you can say that about setting up a Sonos system. You just open the app and in my case I said I wanted to add a new Sonos player. It then asked me to press the Mute button together with the volume up button on the Playbar. Within a few seconds the app recognized that it was a Playbar and I was guided step by step through the process of setting it up, optimizing the sound and then I was asked if I wanted to add a Sub. I said Yes and after pressing the connect button on the Sub I was able to set it up the way I liked with respect to how much base it provided. Then I was told to push the volume up button on my TV remote a few times, the app said it recognized the signal and I was basically done. I can now use my TV remote or my satellite remote and set it to TV and turn the volume up and down on the Playbar. My TV's volume is turned off in settings and all I had to do is connect the Playbar's optical audio in port to my TV's optical audio out port with the provided cable. Sonos can also play all the music on your iPhone or any other iOS device where you install the Sonos app. You can also point Sonos to your iTunes Media/Music folder or and it will index all the music there so you can play it directly. Even better and that is what I have done is to put all your music on a network attached hard drive if you have one. Then point Sonos to that folder and you can play all your music without even turning on your computer.
OK, I guess I promoted Sonos enough now *smile*, but ever since they did such a great job with accessibility I recommend them without reservation and their product gets 5 Stars in my book. By now I have invested quite a bit in their stuff, but I also have music in just about every room in my house and its an investment I don't regret whereas I did somewhat regret spending $1,500 on my Sony surround sound receiver 5 years ago. It's an awesome receiver but I never used even half of what it can do and of course a lot of the functions are not accessible since I bought it about a year or so before they came out with a network capable version of it where I might have been able to use an app to control it. Of course I have no idea if the app would have been accessible and once you are hooked on Sonos it's hard to go back to something that is less fun and accessible. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Werner Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 7:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Using the iPhone with the Bose SoundTouch App Hello, everyone. SoundTouch is an app made by Bosed to allow the SoundTouch audio system to work with smartphones and computers. Has anyone used this app? I can't turn up any information on the net about whetehr this app is VoiceOver-friendly. I thought before I called Bose that I would ask about it here. Thank you for all help. Craig -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
