Hi Dane Yes, I've had the following set up for about ten years. B&W CWM8180 left right and centre speakers B&W MT1 rear speakers Linn Sizmik sub-woofer
Sadly, all the above are now obsolete so it's not much help to you. The fact I have kept them so long shows I have been very happy with the products. Mind you, it could also show I couldn't afford to replace them either! I am still very happy with the sound. The centre speaker blew a driver a couple of years ago and I was lucky to get a part to replace it as I was warned there weren't many left. The mistake I made at the time I bought them was having the 3 front speakers built into a purpose built media cabinet. We were having the living room completely renovated at the time and my wife has always hated my previous floor standing speakers with a passion because of their size and the trailing cables. She hates wires. She says when I die she will wrap me in all the wire I have around the house and bury me in them! So the cabinet was a way of hiding the cables. I even had the cables leading to the rear speakers plastered into the wall. The problem I have now is that when I have to replace the front speakers I will either have to find something the same size that will fit the cabinet or get rid of a very expensive and elaborate piece of furniture. Secretly I would like to go back to floor standing speakers one day but she will kill me! John -----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: 03 October 2016 00:43 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Bowers And Wilkins Speakers Hi John! You mention you have some Bowers And Wilkins speakers as part of your system so which models do you have? I m looking at their range of floor standing models for the lounge, a bit of saving to do to own a pair of those but - if the B&W A5, A7 and Z2 active speaker systems which I ve owned are anything to go by - then a year s saving will be well worth the wait, any additional comments? > On 3 Oct. 2016, at 5:12 am, John Gurd <j.g...@ntlworld.com> 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. >> >> >> > > ********** > Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the > halfwits in this world behind. > > > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
