Hi Don, Good thing I read your reply before answering Dave's questions, your descriptions are very well put and right on the money. Only thing I would add for Dave is that if you want to connect external sources like your CD player or minidisc player, you have to go with the Play 5 as it is the only player apart from the Connect and connect Amp which has an input. The Play 3 sounds very nice as well and even the Play 1 with a Sonos sub is quite amazing, but neither the Play 1 or Play 3 have an input. Anyhow, if you want the best sound a set of Play 5 are the way to go and it's only a $100 price difference per player between the Play 3 and Play 5.
Keep in mind that Sonos does offer a 45-day satisfaction guaranty so if you think you are ready to give this a try just call Sonos and order your equipment, then enjoy and decide after a few weeks of hands on experience if it's for you. Chances are you'll love it. I'm just waiting for Sonos to add support for the new Tidal music service. They just send me an offer for a 2-months subscription at 40% off the regular price of $19.99 per months and I was listening to some stuff via the Tidal iPhone app using my $200 V-Mota headset and it sounded amazing. Tidal streams in lossless FLAC format so if you have high-end equipment it is really worth it. I also have a Deezer subscription which I received for free with my latest Sonos purchase and for some reason the stream constantly jumps ahead to the next song, it barely plays a song to the end, but half way through it jumps to the next song. Sonos tells me that is because of my internet connection, but I am getting about 30 to 35 Mbps down and 8 to 9 Mbps up with a reasonable ping time so I don't quite understand this and when I was streaming via the Tidal app on my iPhone I listened for an hour without a single drop-out or interruption. Anyhow, I think tidal will be worthwhile to look at once it's on Sonos. The app is a bit cluttered here and there, but it is fully accessible. I hope their Sonos implementation will be full-featured and not like Spotify where you can only access a fraction of the features. This is one reason why I just cancelled my Spotify Premium subscription, I'd rather pay a bit more for Tidal and get better features and the much higher quality. Once Tidal is available via my Sonos system I'll do a separate post/review. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Breda Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sonos speakers 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 > -- 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]. 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