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February 18, 2005

Sonos Digital Music System Review

By Glenn Fleishman

Sonos’ wireless mesh music system is shipping: I just spent a few days with the Sonos system—two ZonePlayer units and a Controller—and wrote the linked review for Personal Tech Pipeline. My take is that the kind of person who might consider spending $499 per node for the best possible digital music system will love this. If $499 per node seems insane to you, you’re not the audience.

There’s so much care taken with almost every aspect of the system that once I overcame a networking problem—with my network, I should note—it was trivial to set up additional units, configure them, add music libraries, and so forth. It’s price beyond my needs and means, but I can highly recommend it to those who want the best possible device currently available.

The ZonePlayer unit uses a wireless mesh system that is not interoperable with Wi-Fi, and, as far as I can tell, doesn’t seem to interfere with Wi-Fi, either. You can connect up to 32 ZonePlayers in a network, but when you reach those numbers, the company recommends that several of them are connected to an Ethernet backbone to reduce the load on the mesh.

Posted by Glennf at February 18, 2005 11:52 AM

Categories: Home Entertainment

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