In the past years Mobile World Congress took a small step Sonos devices, a California company that specializes in developing audio systems or multi-room multi-room sound. Now let's go into detail about how the hand pallet analysis of two of its flagship products, the Sonos ZonePlayer player S5 and ZoneBridge Sonos wireless router.
Both teams form a tandem with which to distribute music for different rooms of your home or office on a WiFi network can be controlled from as many devices as you want. Powered audio kits are more powerful, but connectivity and, above all, ease of use of the Sonos multiroom system and I anticipate that is simply spectacular.
Just after starting any of the Sonos boxes, and began to see that the system is designed with simplicity in mind. The physical controls are minimal as could be. Also, connectivity is limited to three wires: power, ethernet and, at most, an audio input cable for auxiliary devices. The Sonos system works in different ways.
The basic setup is to connect the ZonePlayer S5 directly to a router with internet connection. The existence of ethernet jacks in and out allows us to connect the player as a bridge for us to keep the connection on the PC if you only have one network output in the router. This way of working is ok, but the router does not have to be in an accessible and only access to the full potential of the platform if you have a WiFi network.
To connect wirelessly several ZonePlayer S5, which is what we do in this analysis, we need a ZoneBridge. This small device shaped like a router distributes wireless audio signal for so many control devices and players as we want to have. Thus we have a WiFi network, at least one PC or Mac connected to that network, a ZoneBridge and one or more (two in this case) ZonePlayers S5.
Unless we have a technical problem on the network, the initial setup is simple as could be. Everything is done from the Sonos Desktop Controller, an application for PC, Mac, IOS and soon, Android that centralizes all functions and connection. Once you install the Sonos Desktop Controller, the first step is to recognize the devices in your home.
To do this you only have to look from the program and push a button on each device. The software assigns each player the name you want (lounge, kitchen, bedroom ...) and creates a sound area for everyone. We said earlier that the setup is simple if we have no network problems. In our test, the DNS suffix in the network were assigned manually, so the Sonos system was unable to connect to any ZonePlayer.
After an unsuccessful mess around with the settings Buan, decided to test the company's technical service. The result of this parallel test is slightly less than outstanding. After a phone call, the technician on duty at Sonos (Thanks, Alain) offered to enter into your computer remotely.
In less than 5 minutes, good old Alain located the problem in the DNS in the router and leave the system running. I had not watched a service as effective and pleasant treatment. Configured the system, the Sonos Desktop Controller is the control room from which we can load our playlists, are those of the MP3 on your hard drive, iTunes, or online services such as radio and music Audible, Deezel, Last FM, Wolfgang's Vault, Napster or Spotify (only if we Spotify Premium).
For a song sound in the online players have to play it directly from the Sonos Desktop Controller. In this sense, the software works great. The management of playlists from other programs and services is easy and intuitive. It may not be best suited to manage a media library, but it is the function.
From the Sonos Desktop Controller can also adjust the volume of each player, turn off the light Stanbdby out of the way in, say, a bedroom, or manage the areas. In principle, each ZonePlayer creates a separate area. Since the software can run different playlists to sound, such as Jazz in the bedroom and Rock in the classroom.
They can also join several areas to reproduce the same list. Apart from installing Sonos Desktop Controller on a PC, you can also download and install the equivalent version on the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. These versions allow exactly the same functions as the Sonos PC or Mac version still being developed version of this software for Android.
Fortunately, the independent developer Joakim Recht has developed an application called Andronicos unofficial already in its beta version 5.3 and it works very stable. For our test, we installed a Samsung Andronicos Galaxy Tab and experience, while not an official product is really good.
Once found the areas we can switch between playlists comfortably lounging on the couch, turn down the volume or mute the ZonePlayer in another room, or change the EQ of the music playing in the kitchen from the bathroom. The platform allows multiple devices to control the system at the same time, which can lead to a genuine war of musical zapping if at home we spend different tastes.
We can not take without commenting closed this analysis capabilities of the Sonos ZonePlayer S5. This is the most powerful player Sonos, a unit with a rather small size (217 × 365 × 123 mm and 4.15 kilos) and equipped with five speakers: two tweeters, two midrange drivers and a 3 inch 3.5-inch subwoofer.
Each of these speakers are powered individually by class D amplifiers and digital circuitry DSP. The musical result of the ZonePlayer S5 may not be as round as the other groups of speakers Hi-Fi very high range, but we must also take into account that its price is content when compared with high-fidelity components.
Each Sonos ZonePlayer costs 399 euros S5 when a similar device not connected can easily double that price. If there is one word that defines the sound of the S5 ZonePlayer, that word is 'clean', even at high volumes. Very rare is the case of a user who is not fully satisfied with just mess for a while and equalizer settings.
Although it is designed to provide sound individually in each room, two ZonePlayer can be configured in a single area to make left and right channels of a stereo system. The result is worthy of a concert hall. It is also interesting to use one of the S5 as a sound bar TV. The possibilities are as numerous as the imagination of everyone.
The platform is happiness Sonos multiroom music in comfortable doses. For 900 euros (399 euros each ZonePlayer S5 and 100 of the ZoneBridge) we can get a system where good vibrations fill an average size home or convert a room into a concert hall enviable. The good sound of the S5 ZonePlayer must be added the extraordinary comfort of handling the music from your PC, from the iPhone, from the iPad or from a tablet Android.
Sonos Multiroom is very, very easy to set up and the possibility of a ZonePlayer to any point provided that a plug is great. Not to have the ability to add new ZonePlayer in the future without having to change the whole system. Definitely recommended. 
Both teams form a tandem with which to distribute music for different rooms of your home or office on a WiFi network can be controlled from as many devices as you want. Powered audio kits are more powerful, but connectivity and, above all, ease of use of the Sonos multiroom system and I anticipate that is simply spectacular.
Just after starting any of the Sonos boxes, and began to see that the system is designed with simplicity in mind. The physical controls are minimal as could be. Also, connectivity is limited to three wires: power, ethernet and, at most, an audio input cable for auxiliary devices. The Sonos system works in different ways.
The basic setup is to connect the ZonePlayer S5 directly to a router with internet connection. The existence of ethernet jacks in and out allows us to connect the player as a bridge for us to keep the connection on the PC if you only have one network output in the router. This way of working is ok, but the router does not have to be in an accessible and only access to the full potential of the platform if you have a WiFi network.
To connect wirelessly several ZonePlayer S5, which is what we do in this analysis, we need a ZoneBridge. This small device shaped like a router distributes wireless audio signal for so many control devices and players as we want to have. Thus we have a WiFi network, at least one PC or Mac connected to that network, a ZoneBridge and one or more (two in this case) ZonePlayers S5.
Unless we have a technical problem on the network, the initial setup is simple as could be. Everything is done from the Sonos Desktop Controller, an application for PC, Mac, IOS and soon, Android that centralizes all functions and connection. Once you install the Sonos Desktop Controller, the first step is to recognize the devices in your home.
To do this you only have to look from the program and push a button on each device. The software assigns each player the name you want (lounge, kitchen, bedroom ...) and creates a sound area for everyone. We said earlier that the setup is simple if we have no network problems. In our test, the DNS suffix in the network were assigned manually, so the Sonos system was unable to connect to any ZonePlayer.
After an unsuccessful mess around with the settings Buan, decided to test the company's technical service. The result of this parallel test is slightly less than outstanding. After a phone call, the technician on duty at Sonos (Thanks, Alain) offered to enter into your computer remotely.
In less than 5 minutes, good old Alain located the problem in the DNS in the router and leave the system running. I had not watched a service as effective and pleasant treatment. Configured the system, the Sonos Desktop Controller is the control room from which we can load our playlists, are those of the MP3 on your hard drive, iTunes, or online services such as radio and music Audible, Deezel, Last FM, Wolfgang's Vault, Napster or Spotify (only if we Spotify Premium).
For a song sound in the online players have to play it directly from the Sonos Desktop Controller. In this sense, the software works great. The management of playlists from other programs and services is easy and intuitive. It may not be best suited to manage a media library, but it is the function.
From the Sonos Desktop Controller can also adjust the volume of each player, turn off the light Stanbdby out of the way in, say, a bedroom, or manage the areas. In principle, each ZonePlayer creates a separate area. Since the software can run different playlists to sound, such as Jazz in the bedroom and Rock in the classroom.
They can also join several areas to reproduce the same list. Apart from installing Sonos Desktop Controller on a PC, you can also download and install the equivalent version on the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. These versions allow exactly the same functions as the Sonos PC or Mac version still being developed version of this software for Android.
Fortunately, the independent developer Joakim Recht has developed an application called Andronicos unofficial already in its beta version 5.3 and it works very stable. For our test, we installed a Samsung Andronicos Galaxy Tab and experience, while not an official product is really good.
Once found the areas we can switch between playlists comfortably lounging on the couch, turn down the volume or mute the ZonePlayer in another room, or change the EQ of the music playing in the kitchen from the bathroom. The platform allows multiple devices to control the system at the same time, which can lead to a genuine war of musical zapping if at home we spend different tastes.
We can not take without commenting closed this analysis capabilities of the Sonos ZonePlayer S5. This is the most powerful player Sonos, a unit with a rather small size (217 × 365 × 123 mm and 4.15 kilos) and equipped with five speakers: two tweeters, two midrange drivers and a 3 inch 3.5-inch subwoofer.
Each of these speakers are powered individually by class D amplifiers and digital circuitry DSP. The musical result of the ZonePlayer S5 may not be as round as the other groups of speakers Hi-Fi very high range, but we must also take into account that its price is content when compared with high-fidelity components.
Each Sonos ZonePlayer costs 399 euros S5 when a similar device not connected can easily double that price. If there is one word that defines the sound of the S5 ZonePlayer, that word is 'clean', even at high volumes. Very rare is the case of a user who is not fully satisfied with just mess for a while and equalizer settings.
Although it is designed to provide sound individually in each room, two ZonePlayer can be configured in a single area to make left and right channels of a stereo system. The result is worthy of a concert hall. It is also interesting to use one of the S5 as a sound bar TV. The possibilities are as numerous as the imagination of everyone.
The platform is happiness Sonos multiroom music in comfortable doses. For 900 euros (399 euros each ZonePlayer S5 and 100 of the ZoneBridge) we can get a system where good vibrations fill an average size home or convert a room into a concert hall enviable. The good sound of the S5 ZonePlayer must be added the extraordinary comfort of handling the music from your PC, from the iPhone, from the iPad or from a tablet Android.
Sonos Multiroom is very, very easy to set up and the possibility of a ZonePlayer to any point provided that a plug is great. Not to have the ability to add new ZonePlayer in the future without having to change the whole system. Definitely recommended.
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