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<div>Nick</div><div><br></div><div>I
have to disagree you.&nbsp;<span
style="line-height:1.25;word-spacing:normal;">Just looked and
it&#39;s now a decade since I installed our first Sonos
zone...</span></div><div><a rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" href="http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/reviews/sonos-long-term-review.html";>http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/reviews/sonos-long-term-review.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>We
now have multiple zones, Play:1, 3 and 5, Sub, Connect and
Connect:Amp.&nbsp;<span
style="line-height:1.25;word-spacing:normal;">Check out the
this rack from my visit the the Cornflake shop smart apartment in London.
Those g
uys are at the top of the market and they use Sonos too because
it&#39;s so good.</span></div><div><a
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/installation/our-tour-of-cornflakes-stunning-london-smart-apartment.html";>http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/installation/our-tour-of-cornflakes-stunning-london-smart-apartment.html</a
></div><div><br></div><div>It&#39;s
one of those &#39;just works&#39; products and It&#39;s
probably the only other product I&#39;d put in the same category as
Apple.&nbsp;</div><div><p>
&nbsp;</p></div><div>M.</div><div><br><div><br></div></div><div><br><div><br></div></div><div
class="ygroups-quoted"><br><br>---In
ukha_d@xxxxxxx, &lt;njh@xxxxxxx&gt; wrote
:<br><br><div
id="ygrps-yiv-776425438">Hello,<br>
<br>
I am currently borrowing a Sonos PLAY:1 from work.<br>
<br>
It is mostly pretty good but these are my negatives:<br>
* Occasionally it seems to unpair with the bridge and can be a pain to
<br>
get it working again. Connecting directly to Ethernet improved
things.<br>
* You are locked into the Sonos world - you can&#39;t just stream using
any <br>
mobile app (like Airplay/Google Cast etc)<br>
* The sound is very &#39;Bose&#39; - artificial sounding bass -
probably <br>
because of the small speaker size.<br>
* The low-latency network is very clever but I still think it is very
<br>
expensive for what it is.<br>
<br>
I guess some of these are solved by using a Sonos CONNECT and your own
<br>
amp and speakers but I don&#39;t think I will be buying any Sonos
myself.<br>
<br>
<br>
I am currently using my own amplifier and speakers, connected to an
<br>
Airport Express. Not as fancy as Sonos but a hell of a lot cheaper. You
<br>
can also pickup old Airport Express (the slower 802.11b ones) cheaply on
<br>
eBay, which work perfectly well for audio - I actually have Wifi turned
<br>
off in mine.<br>
<br>
<br>
Something else I am looking into is an amplifier board for Raspberry
<br>
Pi:<br>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.tindie.com/products/IQaudIO/pi-digiamp-2x20w-powerdac-for-the-raspberry-pi/";>https://www.tindie.com/products/IQaudIO/pi-digiamp-2x20w-powerdac-for-the-raspberry-pi/</a><br>
<br>
But not looking into what software I would run on it yet...<br>
<br>
<br>
nick.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2015-06-29 11:08, Mark McCall <a rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" href="mailto:lists@xxxxxxx";>lists@xxxxxxx</a>
[ukha_d] <br>
wrote:<br><blockquote><span class=""> &gt;
We ran speaker wires too but never used. Just go Sonos.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; M.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Tracey Gardner<br>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="mailto:tracey.gardner@xxxxxxx";>tracey.gardner@xxxxxxx</a>
[1] [ukha_d] &lt;<a rel="nofollow"
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[2]&gt;<br>
&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; &nbsp;<br>
&gt;&gt; I am now in the final stages of my self-build and am
starting to<br>
&gt;&gt; think how to implement music/audio around the
place.<br>
&gt;&gt; &nbsp;<br>
&gt;&gt; My wiring/cabling consists of a network of pairs of heavy
duty<br>
&gt;&gt; loudspeaker cables out to speaker locations in the ceiling
of each<br>
&gt;&gt; room.<br>
&gt;&gt; The intention was to allow for central control of the
system from my<br>
&gt;&gt; Node 0.<br>
&gt;&gt; I also provided CAT 5 at several points around each room
to allow<br>
&gt;&gt; for IR control if necessary, but I imagine that wireless
will have<br>
&gt;&gt; superseded that idea?<br>
&gt;&gt; &nbsp;<br>
&gt;&gt; At the time of planning/implementing this network, there
was not a<br>
&gt;&gt; great deal of choice in audio/control systems and I would
now like<br>
&gt;&gt; to know what the up to date&nbsp;options
are.<br>
&gt;&gt; &nbsp;<br>
&gt;&gt; So please feel free to flood me with ideas :-)<br>
&gt;&gt; &nbsp;<br>
&gt;&gt; Many thanks<br>
&gt;&gt; &nbsp;<br>
&gt;&gt; Tracey<br>
&gt;&gt; Lincolnshire<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; &nbsp;<br>
&gt;&gt; &nbsp;<br>
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