Anybody own this system or have any opinions on it. Thinking this will be my Christmas present to the fam. https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/ho...VyrrACh1WiQx5EAAYASAAEgKQavD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
I love my Sonos. However I just got Google Home, which is also pretty fucking great as well. For your home Sonos would probably be better though. Google Home speakers are pretty cheap right now though, depends on exactly what you wanna do with it.
I really like my Sonos system. One of my best friends is a director there, and unlike how you use your clout here, I might actually be able to hook you up if you're seriously looking at a system.
We just really love music. Playing it all the time. Not in the mood to start wiring everywhere. Like that once our basement finally gets redone, I can incorporate their sound bar and woofer into what speakers I already have.
We have three of them in our great room. The sound is high fidelity quality and the wirelessness is great. There's a bit of a learning curve, but nbd really. For me, the biggest downside is that I haven't yet figured out how to hook a CD player into the system - important for us Luddites who don't like streaming everything. But overall, I give it a B+.
You can add any exisiting speakers to a Sonos sytem using their connect device. I personally wouldn't mix and match different speakers in the same room. https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/connect.html I am really intrigued by the Playbase. https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/04/sonos-playbase-review/
Yeah if you have an old ass house that isn't prewired for surround sound and wall mounted tvs. The biggest bitch I had wall mounting my tv was the cable tube in the wall was corrugated and grabbing the straps to pull the release levers on the wall mount mechanism. I highly recommend wall mounting a tv now that I have them. So much cleaner.
My buddy says that performance-wise there's not much different b/w the playbase and playbar, and discouraged me from upgrading unless it was for aesthetic reasons. The playbar has an extra ethernet port, and generally does a bit worse on bass than the playbase, but the playbase is minutely less sharp and controlled on the treble. If you're choosing, they were attempted in the design to have similar sound quality--just a matter of how flexible your arrangement is or how you want your setup to look. EDIT: and if you're looking to drop a couple grand on a system, you're probably getting a dedicated sub for bass anyway, so even that drawback kind of goes away.
Yeah, the set up should be: Play 1 in each bedroom. Maybe a Play 3 in the Master bedroom if its larger. Play 1 in the Kitchen Play 3 in the Living Room Soundbar or Playbase in the main TV room with a sub If you want the ability to do voice controls, the new Play 1's are compatible with Amazon Alexa. soon also will work with Google Voice Home. I believe you can connect Amazon Echo Dots to them too to do voice commands. That's kind of the next level though, but Voice Search and integration into the home and car is the next big thing.
So the Play 3 sounds good enough? If the 3 sounds good, no need for me to get the 5. More money to spend on more 1s would be cool with me.
I only have a 1. It really depends on how big your room is for the 5. The thing is, the Soundbar or SoundBar act as a speaker too in addition to being a TV speaker I believe. Save room and money that way.
