One big room solutions please

I always think Play:5 is a good start.

I would say grab 2 Play:5's to start for the large room.

I would use a single Play:1 for each bathroom (assuming you have outlets in bathroom).

Master Bedroom I'm not sure how much power you want in there but a Play:5 is pretty powerful. I would say a single Play:5 would do well there as well unless it is more for casual background music then maybe a 3.

Lounge - not sure size but pair of Play:1s or a couple Play:5s depending on how high end you want to go in there.

I would at least get a couple 5"s and a couple 1's and play around with and think of 3's as just a little step up from the 1's

and if you want some extra bass the Sonos Sub is a terrific unit - may be good to have for the large room.

I did just about every room in my house with play1 (15 total). I think it's Sonos' best speaker. I started with a play5 which sounds great but the size and $$$ are bigger. Also you could tell what direction the music was coming from so I bought a second one thinking two would envelop the room so no one would be able to tell direction of the music and it didn't work so I started buying play1 and replaced the two play5 with four play1. Now no one can tell what direction the music is coming from and the play1 are easier to place. They don't change the décor of the rooms. I also added the sub and the place sounds awesome. I ended up splitting up the play5 into bedrooms which they can easily cover. Buy as many play1 as you can afford.

Kris:)

Just be sure to hard wire one of you Sonos speakers to the router or get a Boost to use SonosNet. Just a better way to run Sonos.

Yes, I have the boost. Works great.

Kris:)

yes run sonosnet with wired unit. Don't run wifi only and put all your music traffic on your home network.

Thanks guys but I am genuinely a newbie and my electrician is asking what he needs to wire in ?? I appreciate some of this is wireless but what wiring should be done in my new extension ? Should I run any cables whilst I have a chance ?
Am I right I saying I won't need to run cables into the other rooms as all will be wireless? I live in an old house with very thick walls everywhere.

Cheers

Sonos units would hook to Ethernet (which would feed back to your home router). The requirement is for only one Sonos unit to be hooked via Ethernet wire to run Sonosnet. However, you can run multiple units on Ethernet and in general this normally provides a better network. Using Sonosnet with one unit hooked to router every single unit becomes a repeater extending the Sonosnet signal further into home.

Am I right I saying I won't need to run cables into the other rooms as all will be wireless? I live in an old house with very thick walls everywhere.

First, you will need mains power sockets in the vicinity of each play unit, so make sure those are available. In a large room, I too would go with play1 units scattered around the place, so you need mains sockets to power these. If you add a Sub later, one of these power sockets will suffice for the Sub as well.
As to thick walls, do you get a good Wifi in the large room you are referring to? If the router is located in another room, you may not, and in that case Sonos would also not work well. You then need to run ethernet wire from the router to the large room such that one play unit can be wired to the router; other play units in the room will then run wirelessly with no issues.

Chris- So your saying I shouldn't run just the boost. I should have at least one speaker plugged into the router as well? even though the boost is plugged into the router?

Kris:)

In a normal distance set up, one Sonos product (in this case a Boost) will do but, there is no harm running a ethernet wire from you router to the farthest speaker in the house.

Have a look at

https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3046/kw/sonosnet/session/L3RpbWUvMTQ4MTU5NDQxNC9zaWQvZlVaVyU3RVFNNHA4NWt5UFBaTElpQkd4bDlWVXRvUWZYb3RfaWN4SjVsSnQ2TVltVDZfdlZKeVhVSFZ2VjRUUVU1cmZLa2NCYUgyVEluQXQ2MU1NMDBJYUVuX0NNSXBSaWJEVTY0djl2MGNUU0ZCRWxEdjIxM0JBOHclMjElMjE%3D