Why Sonos did it right…
Before reading this post, if you are not already familiar with Sonos, go check out their products.
True, the market is littered with personal media servers and home network music broadcasting solutions. I’m sure some of them actually work too. I’m quite into music and I’m into how it souds, so I waited and waited until the right product emerged. I tend to be into techie-gear and be an early adopter, but in this case nothing I saw on market had impressed me. Until I met Sonos…
Sonos is an example of a company that “got it right” in my opinion. They brought to market a product designed to do one thing exceptionally well, and thoughtfully included the must-have features but left out the fringe stuff that appeals to only power users and geeks (of which I am one, ironically). They got it right because they built a hybrid that appeals to both the computer-user market and the audiophile market. The controller has an iPod like interface and feels solid in your hands. It’s a many-to-many setup (you can control multiple players from multiple controllers and manage multiple audio zones) that enables total control over the music in the house w/o running speaker cable everywhere. Another reason they got it right…their support team recognized that some of us are a bit more capable when it comes to the technical stuff, and they enable you to bypass the initial line of support designed for non-techies. Smart.
I’ve got over 100GB of MP3s, and I can play them at any time throughout the house with the very intuitive controller 
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The system works very well, has good audio quality, and is pretty damn fast given it’s dealing with a network of 4 players and a library of over 38,000 tracks.
What’s cool is that when friends come over and pick up the player, they can easily browse my entire library on the controller and make playlists. Everyone’s a DJ. I also use myTunes from SonicSwap to fill in the album art for all of my music, which Sonos displays as well.
The hardware is well made, solid, and intuitive. The company is easy to work with and has done a great job making a cutting edge digital music system that just works, doesn’t crash, and doesn’t require an engineering degree to configure.
Highly recommended…
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