Hi Scott,
I can only recommend it. Only thing is that Airplay isn't natively supported by Sonos, but if you have an Airport Express you can easily Airplay enable your Sonos system by connecting your Airport Express to your Sonos player with an Ethernet cable as well as a 3.5mm male to RCA male cable (there are a few more settings involved, but it's possible and works perfectly well). Sonos is sold by some retailers and, if you decide to order from them directly they do ship for free in the States and offer I think it's a 30-day money back guaranty. I don't own a Play:3, but I do have a Play:5 which sounds great, the same goes for the Connect:Amp and the basic Connect which I think in the States is $349 is also good if you want to have Sonos available on an existing stereo or home theatre system. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 2:32 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Waking up with music - the Sonos alternative You know I want to go check one of the Sonos systems out because I have heard so many good things about them. I know they are not cheap, but apparently the sound is as good as or better than the Bose Sound Dock or whatever they call it. If the app is fully accessible it makes it even better. On Sep 26, 2012, at 10:45 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: Hi Courtney, If you are ever in the market for a good quality boombox or multi-room audio system give Sonos a try. The Sonos app is fully accessible and you can wake up to anything you want, any song, album, a playlist you make, any of the thousands of internet radio stations like those you'd find on Ootunes or Tune In or any music subscription you may have like Spotify, Rdio, Slacker, Rhapsody etc. You can tell Sonos to start playing at whatever time you want, you can set as many alarms as you want, a different one for each day, the same for Monday to Friday etc. You can also tell the system to play for 30 minutes, 60 minutes and so on after it starts after which time it stops automatically and if you have multiple Sonos players in the house you can play only in one room or 2 or on any player in the house.The music starts out at low volume and graduately reaches the volume level you specified. The least expensive way to get into a Sonos system would be with a Play:3 player which is $299. You'd have to either have it connected to your router directly to access the internet and the music on your computer or in your iTunes library or you can buy a Zonebridge along with it for an extra $99. Then you can hook this up to your router wherever it is located in your house and you can put the Play:3 into any room as it gets the signal from the Zonebridge wirelessly. The players are, however, not working on batteries, they do have to plugged in and you can have as many as you like. The next step up would be a Play:5 for I think $399 or something like that, it's bigger more like a traditional boombox and every bit as good sounding as a Bose Wave or whatever their boombox is called. After that you get into the Connect:Amp which is $599 and it's just a touch bigger than an Apple TV and about twice as high but has a very similar shape and it is basically an 110 Watt Class D amplifier which would have to be hooked up to any set of bookshelf or larger speakers and it sounds extremely well depending of course how good the speakers are you connect to it. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit <http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
