Wonderful stuff, I'm considering the purchase of one of these even
though I won't be able to play my HD music collection with it, its still
a convenient way to play Music Subscription services, right there all in
one place.
I have to admit to being a little hesitant to purchase right away as
Sonos has competition - and very good competition from the likes of Bose
and Samsung - out there too so this whole line of streamers will evolve
I reckon in a very short space of time
On 3/10/2016 5:12 AM, John Gurd wrote:
Hi Jim
I just saw your enquiry. I don't have the Sonos Conect:Amp, but I do have the Sonos
Connect. So I don't know how good the Connect Amp is at powering Speakers and How
they would sound. I got the Connect which feeds my Arcam AVR750 receiver with a
digital signal which in turn powers a 5.1 set of B&W speakers. I use the
Connect with Wi-Fi and listen to streaming media from Apple Music and Amazon. There
is never any buffering or dropout. It sounds surprisingly excellent with these
music sources. I expected it to sound inferior to my old Logitech Transporter but
it doesn't. I never got around to listening to uncompressed music on it yet which I
hope should sound even better. The only drawback may be that it can't play HD audio
sources by which I mean anything sampled above 48000 or 24bit. But anything at CD
quality is very good.
As the Connect:Amp has its own amplification stage I can't comment on that side
of things from a personal experience. I will say that my other Sonos equipment
i.e.: a stereo pair of the small Sonos Play 1 speakers sound very good for
their size.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: 29 September 2016 19:21
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: SonosConnectAmp.
I don t own one though I certainly will be looking at one in the coming days.
The Songs connect gets good write-ups and I m looking forward to using one for
two reasons, I m looking forward to having a play with the Songs App and I m
looking forward to using the digital output on my system with my DAC.
On 30 Sep. 2016, at 4:16 am, Jim Noseworthy
<jim.nosewor...@compuconference.com> wrote:
HiGang:
Can anyone on this list comment about the quality of the Sonos Connect
Amp":?
Thanks all over the place.
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