Every year around this time your humble reviewer goes through about three or four weeks were he would sell his mother to own a fully integrated Sonos system. In January the feeling passes, reality hits and the dream is packed away for another 11 months.
So what is Sonos? Well it’s a wireless multi room music distribution system. It allows you to play your music anywhere in your house. Want to play Jazz in the lounge but rock in Kitchen? No problem. Having a party and want the whole house to be playing Bob Marley tracks? Easy peasy.
I did quite a lot of research on this a few years ago, Sonos is quite unique in its out of the box functionality. When you look at the “competing” products they all fall short on something. Many can’t push music to a zone, i.e decide using the same control to play the same music in the lounge and kitchen. Others can’t cope with playing different songs in different zones.
Lets not oversell this, given enough time and a good bit of know how you can create the same effect. Sonos’ benefit is they’ve done the leg work it works straight out of the box no high level knowledge of wifi needed, and the User interfaces are to die for.
Did I mention the iPhone remote? Sonos is infinitely expandable, you can buy extra zone kits to add rooms to an existing system, bridges to link up to existing HI-FIs or just speakers that will magically play your music. Even better sonos have recently provided seamless connections with a spotify account. I think it may be February before I pack this little dream away this time.
Wow. The sonos system looks ace. I think i'll be joining you in adding it to my wish list.
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