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Title: Sonos Play
Post by: Penfold on December 06, 2012, 10:28:18 AM
Thought I'd start Christmas early and bought a Sonos Play system.

Bought a Sonos 3 (£229 priced matched by John Lewis and with a free wifi bridge), this is great.

The bridge attaches to your hub and then wirelessly streams music from your PC to the speaker/s (up to 9). It can be controlled wirelessly from any android or apple platform (we've got both iphones and ipads set up with it) and you can sit there, browse your entire music library (for me that about 320gb worth) and play, control volumes and settings, form queues and playlists and the sound is superb. If you add extra speakers they can either all play the same music or work independently of each other so people can listen to different music in different rooms.

It also works on your current music system with an adapter and plays Internet radio as needed. It also came with 6 months napster free (not that I use it).
I'm in awe of this. The only downside is that when the kids get hold of it  I now hear Christmas music throughout the house  :rolleyes:.

http://www.sonos.com/system
Title: Sonos Play
Post by: Gone_Away on December 06, 2012, 01:22:39 PM
cool beans.

How good is the wireless? Do you have the unit far away?

I looked at the Sonos when it came out. Nice bit of kit.
Title: Sonos Play
Post by: BrotherTobious on December 06, 2012, 01:25:08 PM
Yeah saw that Audio T are doing a deal like that but comes with Napster access as well. I am very very tempeted.
Title: Sonos Play
Post by: DrunkenZombiee on December 06, 2012, 01:34:27 PM
Other options are the Logitech squeezeboxes which are being retired so going very cheap atm.
Title: Sonos Play
Post by: Sneakytiger on December 06, 2012, 05:48:48 PM
have u got the sonos app on your phone for it?
Title: Sonos Play
Post by: Penfold on December 06, 2012, 06:49:29 PM
yes on both phones as well as the ipads - works on both as well as PC, MAC and Android.
Title: Sonos Play
Post by: Penfold on December 06, 2012, 06:52:47 PM
Quote from: Ninja_Freak;362807cool beans.

How good is the wireless? Do you have the unit far away?

I looked at the Sonos when it came out. Nice bit of kit.

I have the router and bridge at 1st floor one end of the house and the speaker on the ground floor at the other end and it's fine. Distance-wise about 50ft I guess
Title: Sonos Play
Post by: OldBloke on April 10, 2014, 08:39:35 PM
Thread resurrection alert ....

A bit of a discussion about the Sonos system at the LAN as I too thinks it's absolutely brilliant. I said there that the only thing I wish it had was a plugin to Google Music.

Well guess what? It's here :yahoo:

http://blog.sonos.com/news/now-playing-google-play-music-on-sonos/

Came with a free 90 day subscription to Google's 'All Access' too :yahoo::yahoo:
Title: Sonos Play
Post by: Penfold on April 10, 2014, 10:54:29 PM
Great but shame it's limited to 20,000 songs :(
Title: Sonos Play
Post by: smilodon on April 11, 2014, 06:53:28 AM
I think the 20000 limit relates to the  number of songs that you can upload and stream from the Google cloud for free.

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Title: Sonos Play
Post by: OldBloke on May 27, 2014, 08:58:31 PM
20% off Sonos products at Amazon.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/20-off-sonos-items-amazon-using-20kindle-code-sonos-soundbar-479-20-1915074
Title: Sonos Play
Post by: Penfold on May 27, 2014, 09:32:52 PM
Lovely....ordered.
Title: Sonos Play
Post by: suicidal_monkey on May 28, 2014, 08:26:20 AM
Ack

Such temptation

... Now trying to work out what sort of optical output my 47LN575V has