Wireless speaker systems

Bluefoam

So... I'm considering putting together a wireless speaker system... Buying one speaker at a time until I have a good spread and good coverage...

What is the general consensus on these systems?

My main aim will be to play digital files from my phone... often loud, but with a reasonable amount of bass and good clarity.

The systems I am looking at are
Sonos: http://www.sonos.com/en-wo?r=1
LG: http://www.lg.com/us/tv-audio-video/discover-wireless-surround-sound
Bose: Didin't have a system that was integrated enough... seems a bit thrown together and unpleasant...

Am I better off waiting for something better to come along?

Bluefoam

Ive moved this over to the Android forum as there doesn't seem to be much activity here.

akaSol

For regular streaming Sonos - end of story. It has the most Digital library access ( Spotify , Google music , Deezer , Tidal etc ) of any streaming speaker , its very simple set-up and us is 2nd to none.
Further LG speakers use the Google ( miri ) cast which is a brilliant since there are thousands of "airplay" enabled devices this I feel is a step on androids favour - Sonos has already integrated casting from Android (not all audio sources) into the platform .
If you want to future proof - Bluesound - No android cast (yet) and limited to a half dozen digital library's , but is capable of playing 24bit audio. Sonos cannot do this. It maybe able to down sample 24bit to 16bit in the future. But that's a big maybe .

>Sol

Bluefoam

Does Sonos support casting?

Problem I have is that here in the Middle East, there is no access to music streaming servivces like Spotify or Google Play, so Google Cast makes more sense as there are more streaming options...

akaSol

Bluefoam wrote: »

Does Sonos support casting?

Problem I have is that here in the Middle East, there is no access to music streaming servivces like Spotify or Google Play, so Google Cast makes more sense as there are more streaming options...

Sonos only casts/streams from music sources - any music on phone and streaming music library as well as internet radio .
If its casting from Youtube or Netflix etc I don't think LG's will pick up the stream, Sonos definitely don't.
There is a work about for this but it involves 3rd party software and uses allot of battery .

On a side line if you are streaming from video , Bluetooth is a better idea but you lose multi room without it getting a bit expensive

>Sol

Bluefoam

I dropped into Carrefour on the way home from work to have a look at the LG system... They had the HS7 for a little over €200, with 4.1 soundbar and subwoofer (massive bargain)... So as I'm heading to the checkout the sales guy chased me down to tell me he'll throw in a H3 speaker free as they had another promotion starting tomorrow... Great sound out of this thing! Eventually I'll add another H3 to make my living room surround sound and I'll add a H5 in the bedroom.

Another bonus is that I discovered that Deezer works here... What a great day