I want to get music playback into a few rooms. We have a load of CDs but mostly listen to streaming or downloaded music.
Good reviews as Sonos gets, the basic unit goes for £150 and is seemingly about as big as a can of beans. Even the 3 at £250 looks small. I'm struggling to believe they are decent speakers?
Whereas for £250 I could buy a basic Cambridge Audio amp and a pair of speakers from Richer Sounds, and a Chromecast Audio. In fact with the bottom end amp and wharfdale 9s, I can get it for £150. And while those are bottom end, they're still proper separates with great reviews.
By the time I get to the cost of a play 5, or dual 3s, I could be getting some half decent kit, so is Sonos actually any good when comparing cost, for audio alone?
Then looking at a bedroom speaker, the 1 seems great but £150 is quite a lot for a bedroom speaker if you just want quiet music.
So I'm seriously considering throwing my lot in with Google... The Chromecast Audio looks like a wonderful bit of kit, and buy a network drive to centralise storage?
Good reviews as Sonos gets, the basic unit goes for £150 and is seemingly about as big as a can of beans. Even the 3 at £250 looks small. I'm struggling to believe they are decent speakers?
Whereas for £250 I could buy a basic Cambridge Audio amp and a pair of speakers from Richer Sounds, and a Chromecast Audio. In fact with the bottom end amp and wharfdale 9s, I can get it for £150. And while those are bottom end, they're still proper separates with great reviews.
By the time I get to the cost of a play 5, or dual 3s, I could be getting some half decent kit, so is Sonos actually any good when comparing cost, for audio alone?
Then looking at a bedroom speaker, the 1 seems great but £150 is quite a lot for a bedroom speaker if you just want quiet music.
So I'm seriously considering throwing my lot in with Google... The Chromecast Audio looks like a wonderful bit of kit, and buy a network drive to centralise storage?
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