The Sonos multiroom digital music system has me excited and for good reason. The system fixes all the things that I’ve always hated about wireless audio systems: poor sound quality, unwelcomed time delays, and less than adequate source selection. The Sonos wireless music system answers all of my issues with ease, going above and beyond my expectations.
The sound is superb. There are two Sonos players, one with an onboard digital amplifier and one with no amplifier that allows us to connect it directly to a much more powerful amp for high-performance sound and larger rooms. The time delay issues have been corrected and are undetectable to even the most discerning listeners. For explanation purposes, time delay occurs when you walk from one room to another and the timing is not synced so you may hear the different parts of a song playing at the same time in different rooms; not a good thing when you’re trying to create a consistent experience. And finally, there is now an extensive source selection to choose from. Stream all your favorite music through your entire home including iTunes, Pandora radio, last.fm, Napster, Rhapsody, Sirius, and much more.
Once you’ve decided in which rooms you want music, it’s time to decide the level of performance you want in those rooms. The speakers you select will ultimately determine the performance level. I recommend selecting the same speakers in each room to give a consistent listening experience as you walk from one room to another. The only exception to this rule is to accommodate for rooms in which you want significantly better performance. In this case, we can add larger speakers to meet your needs. For these more custom applications, we typically connect a Sonos controller, using all digital cables, to a dedicated external amplifier and let the music rip through a pair of nice sounding speakers by Revel, James Loudspeaker, or Definitive Technology. Otherwise, keep it simple with in-ceilings and smaller bookshelf speakers.
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