Monday, September 3, 2007

SONOS in the house




I switched from the Roku Soundbridge (for whole house audio) via a Panasonic receiver and the Slim Devices Squeezebox 3 (for the Home theater/2 channel set-up) to the SONOS system. Selling the SB3s was very easy (sold them in about 4 days) and that covered most of the cost of the SONOS system. The SONOS system is great for setting up a wholehouse audio system. The system consists of 3 modules: the ZP-80 zoneplayer which feeds a source system (in my case the P1A and Lite Audio DAC-60 to the Emotiva Pre/Pro and amp), the ZP-100 which has it own built-in amp so you can just connect it to speakers (in my case the in-wall speakers in the dining room/family room area), and the CR-100 which is the remote control with LCD display. One of the Zone players has to be connected via ethernet your network. It thens sets up a MESH wireless network so all the other players and the controllers connect to it. The controller can control any of the zone players without the need for line of sight. Last, it does all the stuff you would expect a network music player to do (plays music off your server (Flac files for me), plays internet radio, and if you wish can play premium subscription based music services too like Sirius, rhapsody etc).

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