Intro to Sonos for me

Hey all of you, thank you so much .... i will get out there and see a demo this weekend. As to Sound of Music - rare snowstorm in Portland today so we are doing our best to look like Austria. Actually a great town ....

Check the demo for the features, but don't make final judgments on sound quality based on what you hear in the store. A properly set up stereo pair of even the play 1 units is capable of sounding as good as a decent HiFi set up in the home.

Bluetooth speakers are a better buy than Sonos if the requirement is for a portable, battery powered unit that can be used out of doors to play music contained in a smart phone or the like, even in places like a poolside or a beach; but for indoor use Sonos has the more suitable technology.

And if you are giving it as a gift, keep in mind what most of us have found: it is a gift that drives users to keep buying more of it. Also, Sonos needs a stable home WiFi as a foundation for it to work.

Stable home wifi if you aren't using sonosnet. I still think running on home wifi is in most cases a mistake.

How can one have a working Sonosnet in an unstable Wifi environment? Running on Sonosnet allows for a dedicated to audio bandwidth, but both are susceptible to interference in the same way - AFAIK.

In general true but Example I used to have a horrible wifi router from my internet service (Verizon) but a stable sonosnet.

We have now had Sonos in our house for year. 10 speakers and counting.

https://en.community.sonos.com/components-228996/my-sonos-story-love-sonos-6662091

Hey Joe... Go buy at least one speaker and take it home and try it out in the comfort of your own home. If it for some reason you don't care for it or it doesn't do what you expect, return it to the store and you're out nothing but your time. Double check the store's return policy first though.

Now that Sonos is in Apple stores, it's a no-brainer. Their return policy is excellent. You don't even need a reason.

It's a nice safety-net to have, which is why I purchased my first unit recently in an Apple store, but if you're anything like me, you won't go back to return anything, you'll go back to get a few more. Started with a Play:1 for the toe-dipping, and not two weeks later, I have another 3 Play:5s ... hide your credit cards from gadget addicts 😛