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Inexpensive wireless audio system packs big punch
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I’ve been looking around for a way to wire up my home for sound, without all the wires. I hadn’t been satisfied with the options, partly because of the high prices. Then I met Sonos’ Play:1.
The little brother to the wireless speaker company’s Play:3 and Play:5 speakers packs a big sound in a small package. Thanks to its smaller price tag and a new promotion that lasts through the end of the year, you can now hook up a room in stereo sound for just under US$400.
Sonos is ranked third behind Bose and Jawbone in the US wireless speaker market, which is about 8 percent of the US$8.4 billion annual market for audio equipment, according to research firm NPD Group. But Sonos offers a sound system that other manufacturers such as Samsung and Bose are only starting to imitate.
Sonos streams music over the Internet, or from your computer, using your home’s Wi-Fi network. After plugging in its Bridge adapter to your router, you can then plug in as many speakers as you want to power outlets throughout your home, and they are all linked wirelessly. Pairing two speakers in one room creates a stereo effect and you can listen to different things in different rooms. Each speaker is both a Wi-Fi receiver and transmitter, creating a mesh network that allows even owners of large homes to place speakers into every nook and cranny far from the central hub. All of this is controllable from an app on your mobile phone, tablet or computer.
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