finally a competitor for Sonos??????

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Denon Heos

http://heosbydenon.denon.com/uk

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bristolracer said:

at those prices it wont be worrying Sonos.

About 30% more than equivalents.

Having said that the more manurfacturers who get spotify/deezer/tunein on board the better. Licence agreements between media suppliers and hardware suppliers need to be killed off. If you buy hardware it should play all.

But Sonos sound isn't brilliant the functionality, ease of use, stability, and connectivity is what swings it - I wonder if the Denon stuff is better with the same/similar functionality

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kingston12 said:

I love the idea of Sonos, but hate the implementation. If these are more stable, I'd happily junk all of my Sonos stuff and go with these. Even better, because most people who run Sonos don't seem to have the 'challenging network environment' that Sonos helpful (but ultimately useless) support do, I should actually be able to get some money back on them!

eh - explain?

Can't fault mine at all, and Sonos is generally considered as really stable and easy to use. the only common issues I'v heard of is with the Apple NAS whatever its called - and thats down to the NAS not Sonos.

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Bullett said:

I never understood why Logitech got out of this market, the squeezebox range worked well and was reasonably priced. Ok not quite as slick as Sonos but a better proposition financially.

I guess if you want all in ones then you have to pick and choose. Don't most audiophiles just use Sonos as a transport (at least as the main source) hooked up to dedicated DAC/AMP/Speakers.

totally agree about logitech - maybe they couldn't compete with Sonos. I think they got out just before streaming became a real proposition, maybe just bad timing for both the launch and pull out.

I use both - I have the Play 5's in a few rooms, but in the main room have it hooked up to circa 4k's worth of amp and speakers............still miss my turntable for sound, but can't fault the sonos for convenience.

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kingston12 said:

VEX said:

You shouldn't be having that level of problems with your system.it will be something like a spanning tree loop on your network, a wifi issue or even just one faulty unit that is dragging everything else down.

If you are local I would be happy to pop in and have a look.

V.

Edited by VEX on Tuesday 16th September 07:34

It is a fairly simple network headed by an Apple Airport Extreme with perhaps 10 devices hanging off it.
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any reading around, therein lies your problem.