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Matt V
Contributor I
March 31, 2017
Question

What to buy/ Where to start?

Ok, I'm interested in setting up a SONOS sound system throughout my house.

This is what I would like to accomplish.
Living Room: A good speaker connected to the TV. Which also could be used as a speaker for music from the SONOS system.
Game Room: A speaker connected to the SONOS System.
Backyard: A speaker connected to the SONOS System.
One thing is that I would like to have at least one speaker be able to connect to any music device and not use the SONOS app. I want friends to be able to come over and use their phone, or a DJ to use their system to connect to the SONOS system.

This is what I think I will need.
Living Room: SONOS sound bar.
Game Room and Backyard: One Play one, and one Play 5. The play 5 is necessary as it is the only device able to connect to using a 3.5mm jack.

Does this sound correct to you all?

Thanks.
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    Faz4
    Lyricist III
    April 1, 2017
    What point are you struggling to make? How is a 17 - 30% price increase not profiteering in a market where inflation is below 3%. How is that not excessive?
    Kumar
    April 1, 2017
    Excessive is a subjective thing; buy something else if you see better value elsewhere, as will others. Profiteering has a dictionary definition; look it up. That is the point you may struggle to understand:D.
      Faz4
      Lyricist III
      April 1, 2017
      Insult someone and you have lost the debate - I am an expert in retail competition law - I know the definition. It's different in India. Explain the increase @ 5 to 10 times inflation? Play 1 £149 in January - £199 in March - in every outlet!!!
      Matt VAuthor
      Contributor I
      April 1, 2017
      Holy train off the tracks thread......... but that's ok.

      I bought a Play 1 and Play 5. The sound is amazing.

      So the line in is making me angry. The sound is crap so far. And it looks like if you line in you can only play to the connected speaker and not the Sonos group.

      Also. Do you really have to have the full paid version of Spotify to get it to play on Sonos? Buuuuloney..
      Kumar
      April 1, 2017
      Explain the increase
      Why?
      Kumar
      April 1, 2017
      Holy train off the tracks thread......... but that's ok.


      So the line in is making me angry. The sound is crap so far. And it looks like if you line in you can only play to the connected speaker and not the Sonos group.


      Lol. Apologies!

      Sound quality from line in is as good as the source fed into the socket - unless what you facing is music stuttering or stopping which is an interference problem. What is your source?

      You CAN play to the group from line in - the connected speaker need not even be playing. Select line in as the input for the main speaker in the group.
      SHARKB8T
      SHARKB8T
      Prodigy I
      April 1, 2017


      Also. Do you really have to have the full paid version of Spotify to get it to play on Sonos? Buuuuloney..

      Yes you do, at least, to have it play on Sonos Speakers as part of a services added to the Sonos Controller. (...as opposed to something like being the audio playing on a source device going into your Play 5).

      That restriction is placed by Spotify, not Sonos. IMO I find it worth it, but YMMV.

      ...and as Kumar has said... you can play that line-in source audio to any Sonos product... and do not even have to have it playing on the connected speaker to do so...
      Cazualchatter
      Cazualchatter
      Enthusiast I
      April 3, 2017
      Explain the increase

      http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/apple-price-rises-uk-apple-brexit-price-hike-iphones-macbooks-apps-go-up-3646277/?amp/

      That is a 10-30% increase!!!

      Perhaps if you had voted to REMAIN it would have been cheaper? 😛
      Music + Movies on 2x Play 1s + Sub + Playbar. Amazon Echo Dot + Google Home Mini. Beautiful impulsive music.
      Faz4
      Lyricist III
      April 3, 2017
      It doesn't explain the same increase in the US. You can't use Brexit as an excuse
      jgatie
      jgatie
      April 3, 2017
      It doesn't explain the same increase in the US. You can't use Brexit as an excuse

      There is no increase in the US. Also US prices do not include VAT or any other taxes, whereas UK prices do. Please take that into account and you will see the pricing is within a few dollars of each other given current exchange rate.
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