Hi Dave.
I will insert my answers between your quoted questions.
On 12/18/2014 12:40 PM, Dave Sheridan wrote:
Hi List
I'm looking for hifi equipment as most of what I have I've been using for close
on 30 years. There were some useful posts a few weeks ago regarding Sonos
speakers from which I have one or two questions which hopefully you can help me
with. Am I right in thinking that the Sonos Sub along with either the Sonos 1,
3 or 5 would provide very good sound for listening to music? Secondly,
I would suggest two play 5s and a sub for one room.
Really makes for some nice listening and also will help with connecting
other analog devices to your sonos system, see below.
whilst I have have wifi at home it can be a little variable so would the Sonos
Boost be a worthwhile purchase along with the other products?
The advantage of the boost is that it allows you the freedom to put the
speakers anywhere you want.
IF you don't have it then at leasone of your sonos speakers must connect
via ethernet cable to your router. This may restrict your ability to
plase the speakers where you really want them. In my opinion its not a
bad idea.
The latest version of the sonos firmware howerver allows for wifi
connection to your router without a boost. Since your wifi seems
somewhat iffie I would suggest the boost as a good idea.
Thirdly, although I have a significant amount of my cd collection on external
hard drive, I still have a large collection of cds and would therefore want to
use a cd player. Would this be easily connected to the speakers? Fourth, I have
a large minidisc collection and good Sony minidisc player, would this easily be
connectable to the speakers?
Having two play 5 speakers will allow you two line in connections to the
system so you could put your cd player on one and your mini disk player
on the other.
Fifth, would control of such a system be better controlled through an iPhone,
PC or MacBook or would any of these do the job?
I suggest most often control of your system will be done quite easily
and successfully through the iPhone and of course thats most desirable.
I have found thogh that some things such as adding services and feeding
differernt streams to diffent rooms are accomplished more easily through
the pc controler but are doable on the iPhone.
I have't had experience with the sonos controler on the mac but as I
recall it was not very useable so would probably be the last resort.
I could be wrong about that though.
Finally, whilst retaining my actual copies of cds would I benefit from
purchasing space in the cloud to store my music and is playing music from the
cloud straightforward?
In my opinion I rarely see a reason anymore to have music stored in my
home at all whether on cd or hard drive.
Subscribing to a good music service such as deezer beats music or
something like that gives you access to a music collection it would take
ten life times and a billion dollars to amass.
No need to waste storage space or physical storage space any more for music.
Thats just my opinion and I am sure many will argue.
To access the music collection from anywhere at any time is a true
luxury and easily accomplished these days without any investment in
hardware.
If you want to put your cds on the cloud then google play music which is
supported by sonos gives you the best of both worlds.
You have googles vast music collection at your finger tips as well as
having the ability to upload your own collection to the google play
music cloud so you have access to it anywhere.
Hope this ehlps.
Don
I thank you for your time and any responses which will help me spend my money
well.
Dave
Sent from my iPhone
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