Hi Dave,
I'm in the UK as well, and I went to Currys to demo the speakers before
purchasing.
As for Sonos, they are also in the UK, and will be only too pleased to
answer all your questions on the below number.
0808 234 6596
Regards.
Jim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Sheridan
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 8:31 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Sonos speakers
Thanks Don, John and Sieghard for prompt and thorough answers to my
questions. One further question relating to the 45 days to test them out, is
this when purchasing direct from Sonos as so far I've just looked at Amazon?
I live in the UK and presume Sonos is based in the US, so am I likely to be
looking at a significant shipping charge if purchasing directly from Sonos?
With thanks from Dave
Sent from my iPhone
On 18 Dec 2014, at 19:59, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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