This does sound like an impressive setup and may be a real competitor to Sonos. One thing I like is the fact this has so many different inputs from analogue to HDMI and optical to Micro SD card slots, Bluetooth and NFC. It also has native support for Airplay,Google Cast for audio, Miracast, Chromecast, DLNA and more whereas I am not sure what Creative means by “More”.
They say it supports music services like Spotify, Pandora and, once again, “More” so we’ll have to see if it has support for such a complete list as Sonos. It would be interesting to know if it is still available at the $1,750 preorder price which according to the announcement is only available for the first 200 orders. Considering how Creative said this was so popular at CES one would think that they would have had 200 preorders in a day or two. $1,750 is about the same as a Sonos Playbar, Sonos Sub and 2 Play 1 speakers set up as rear speakers in a 5.1 surround setup so that isn’t too bad if it’s as good as they say it is. The regular price of $5,000 however is of course a pretty big junk of money and it really has to be something extremely special if it will indeed sell for that much. 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