Sonos was founded in 2002 with one simple aim: to transform your home sound system for the digital age. LC3 can also send out multiple audio streams simultaneously for better stereo pairing and more seamless voice assistant integration. Around the back of the Amp you’ll find all of the connections of the Connect:Amp – two pairs of speaker terminals, a subwoofer output, two ethernet sockets, and a stereo analogue input.

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Coupled with the Sonos iPhone app, the ZP-S5 will open up Sonos wireless music to a whole new market, acting as an affordable foundation for a Sonos installation. The Play:5 is the current luxury model of the Play line of products, with the first generation having two tweeters and drivers plus a SUBwoofer, with 5 Class-D amplifiers. If you happen to have Ethernet in your walls, you can simply plug the Play:5 into an open Ethernet port in a room and you'd be good to go. In a less positive review, PC Magazine said "simply put, this is the cheapest way for current iPod touch and iPhone owners to enter the seamless world of home audio streaming that Sonos provides. It made a whole home music system a convenient and affordable reality, delivering music to every room in your house – whether playing in unison, or separately in different zones.The Play:5 boasts a total of five drivers: behind the non-removeable grille, a single woofer is flanked by two midrange drivers and a pair of tweeters, each of which are powered by a dedicated digital amplifier. It's also worth noting that if you were to get a professional installer to equip a home with in-wall speakers and a special networked system (for instance, Crestron), you'd be looking at thousands of dollars per room instead of hundreds. It is the only Play speaker that has a headphone jack, two microphones and an AUX port, and is the second in the lineup to house an LED indicator alongside the Play:3. Tom's Guide derided the speaker for not having Bluetooth support and exclusivity to Sonos' software, but favored its design, quality and praised its stereo pairing. Back to music and we play Alt-J’s Every Other Freckle, yet again enjoying the spaciousness on offer and revelling in the expertly painted tonal picture, which balances substantial bass with textured mids and glistening treble that refuses to brighten.

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This works differently from the "Advanced tuning" on iOS devices, where the mic inside the Era speakers is used to calibrate the sound – a welcome step for Android users.The Works with Sonos badge certifies products that connect with the Sonos family seamlessly, so you know which smart products you can count on to connect to your system without fuss. The Play:5 has a single power cord, which cuts down on cord clutter, and its white, neutral tone fits in with a variety of environments.

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Nevertheless, sound quality of the unit was very confident, but like the Connect:Amp a little lean in the bass. So great, in fact, that when Sonos offered TiPb a limited-time demo to test it out, I jumped at the chance. But best of all, Sonos has managed to make its system supremely easy to setup and use, even for the technology novice. Presumably Sonos has included its active crossover DSP circuitry in the S5’s DAC, making it the final stage of digital processing before the signal becomes analogue audio.It respects iPhone design and user experience paradigms, looks great, and is easy and most importantly -- intuitive to use. Just connect to mains power and use the free Sonos Controller App on an iPhone or iPod Touch (not supplied) to access your iTunes music library and play your tunes. If all the rooms across the two systems have unique names and are on the same Sonos account and local network, Alexa may work with both. This provided the ability to pump separate tunes to the kitchen, living room, media room and office. Chad, with the help of his friend, gave us a first look at using Sonos with the iPhone in lieu of its traditional controller, and raised some great pros (total iPhone control of all music, in every room, of your Sonos-enabled home) and cons (iPhone relegated merely to control, and not leveraged for the media-powerhouse it is in its own right as well) about the experience.

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headphone jack on the back of your Play:5 (Gen 1) and your Play:5’s built in speakers will be disabled. With the introduction of the CR200 wireless controller a couple of months back, and now the ZonePlayer S5, it’s clear that Sonos isn’t resting on its laurels.pounds, the Play:5 has some nice heft to it, but it's not so heavy that you'd have trouble moving it from one room to another if you had to. A second option is to use two Powerline-to-Ethernet adapters to link your router with the Play:5 in another room. All of the intended fun is conveyed thanks to the precise placement of the seemingly incongruous effects – the plane whooshes from far-left to right, the vocal has that lovely, airy, disembodied quality to it and is flanked by those silly, trumpet-like parps from the keyboard.