bouche Posted October 30, 2011 Report Share Posted October 30, 2011 I was very close to getting a sound dock yesterday for my iPod and hooking up my apple airport express but Ollie has nearly sold me on getting a Sonos system. It seems like that setup is ideal because you just keep adding to it and it'll use your network, connect up with other music services and they have apps on iPad and iPhone to control everything. Who's got thoughts on the Sonos speakers or sound docks in general? What do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted October 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2011 (edited) I couldn't wait for opinions afterall and decided to get the Sonos Play 5 and give it a shot. I can return it within a month but so far I'm really digging it. Great sound (completely matches the iPod Hifi in terms of sound driving/quality with more functionality) and it's connected to my entire digital music library 1 floor away. You need to hard-wire these things initially to your network and then they "talk" to each other. You can setup sonos equipment anywhere in the house and can control them together or separately using iPhones, iPads, or PC/Mac. Access to services like Napster keeps the music flowing. Basically, I have Apple's Airport Express which is plugged in downstairs and then I had to plug the Sonos into that with a LAN cable and an audio cable. I'm not sure why I need both but I believe that the Sonos needs information from their software and it likely has memory to buffer. I don't think it depends entirely on the line-in audio channel and a stream from the airport. Really cool tech and well supported. The only thing missing is a Sonos device for the car that can hook into a satellite network. Sirius should buy them, or vice-versa. Or maybe Apple should swallow up both companies, take the satellite network and extend their cloud and music services.Mind you, that would probably rub monopoly hating people the wrong way. Edited October 30, 2011 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted October 30, 2011 Report Share Posted October 30, 2011 Is the Airport Express feeding into the P5? It sounds like it's using your Airport as an input device, much the same way you can just plug an iPod into it.It doesn't sound like you have a traditional SONOS setup going but as long as it works, cool! :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted October 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2011 http://sonos.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/sonos.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1100&p_created=1276099927 the airport is the access point but it needs a data connection for some reason. I can't stream from iTunes directly so it's definitely not just acting like a speaker. I'll unplug the line-in and see what happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted October 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2011 I just unplugged the audio cable and the music kept playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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