doowain
Footballguy
We just moved in to our new home. It is new construction. With the build, we had whole home audio ran. Two speakers each in 3 rooms in the house and 2 on the back deck. They are all wired as one zone. All of these are ran to the unfinished part of the basement to a "smart box".
When the rep that sold me on this setup was going through his sales pitch, he was trying to push to me towards a specific setup to power the speakers. He was selling me on a Sonos Connect ($349) for the wireless freedom of controlling my music from the Sonos app on my phone. I really dig this. For the amp he was pushing me to a Sonance 2-100 2 Channel amp ($699) to power it. All of the speakers in the house are Sonance.
With the Sonos Connect, he told me that if we plan to put a sound bar and subwoofer in our great room at any point (definitely considering), then the Sonos app could be configured to make that a separate zone. And we could add more Sonos speakers in other rooms around the house which could be easily added to the network.
Anyone have any recommendations on alternative setups? Comments on the setup that he was recommending? The recommended setup isn't pricey in the grand scheme of things, but convincing the wife to let me buy $1000+ of audio equipment is another story.
ETA: I've done my Google research and came across some cheaper alternatives. Using a Chromecast (I already have this), I could connect that to an amp...but this just seems like a poor quality option, albeit super cheap.
When the rep that sold me on this setup was going through his sales pitch, he was trying to push to me towards a specific setup to power the speakers. He was selling me on a Sonos Connect ($349) for the wireless freedom of controlling my music from the Sonos app on my phone. I really dig this. For the amp he was pushing me to a Sonance 2-100 2 Channel amp ($699) to power it. All of the speakers in the house are Sonance.
With the Sonos Connect, he told me that if we plan to put a sound bar and subwoofer in our great room at any point (definitely considering), then the Sonos app could be configured to make that a separate zone. And we could add more Sonos speakers in other rooms around the house which could be easily added to the network.
Anyone have any recommendations on alternative setups? Comments on the setup that he was recommending? The recommended setup isn't pricey in the grand scheme of things, but convincing the wife to let me buy $1000+ of audio equipment is another story.
ETA: I've done my Google research and came across some cheaper alternatives. Using a Chromecast (I already have this), I could connect that to an amp...but this just seems like a poor quality option, albeit super cheap.
Last edited by a moderator: