Stereo - what's your rig?
-
I have a nice Onkyo receiver + Bose speakers, that I picked up around 15 years ago now. I mostly stream internet radio @ 192Kbps via Sonos which works really nicely/practically. I start playing music before I get out of bed via my iPhone with no fear of passive speakers being on all night.
-
Totally a sonos family. Playbar and Sub in the Library, two Play 5s in our bedroom, two Play 3s in the den, and about to go for a Sonos Amp and switch for my pre-wired house speakers. Love the system.
-
Yeah, we've been using Rdio for a year or so. Pretty sure it's similar to Spotify. That coupled with Sonos is such a great setup. Plus, the "add to queue" feature is super awesome. When we have people over, we get them all the app and connect it, so it becomes an awesome crowd sourced jukebox.
-
Yeah in addition to the gigabytes and gigabytes and gigabytes of music that I have on my NAS (mainly live bootlegs), I do a lot of Spotify from the mini on the TV/entertainment system. I wish that Spotify had a visualizer like iTunes does, it would be really nice to have something cool on the TV during the music. I've been known to put iTunes on and play stuff on it with the volume turned all the way down just for the visualizer while Spotify's playing, but that doesn't coordinate with the music.
Can't recommend a Mac mini HTPC enough. It's easy for anyone to use, powerful, flexible, and I don't have to worry about the ridiculous restrictions that services like Hulu plus place on devices (what business is it of theirs what kind of a computer I'm connecting from, I don't understand why some content's not available for example on an iPad versus a regular computer. Idiotic).
-
In an ideal world I'd love a pair of stacked Quad ESL 57s…
Unfortunately I don't have the space to fit them in.
What I'm planning on getting is a Sonos sound bar set-up when I get sorted into a new place. That will hopefully play nicely with my TV, and give me something that does music and movies pretty well. Then I'll just have to rip my CDs into a nice, lossless format and put them all on a server.
-
For those of us who are in the Sonos camp. The Play:1 released today looks very very nice. I'm trying to work out if I should pick up 2 or 3. Would love to have internet radio streaming in the bathroom (which it's made to do!).
http://www.sonos.com/introducing/play1
-
I may have to get a couple to complete my surround sound setup.
-
I'm looking into getting a Sonos sound-bar and surround system once I'm a bit more settled, and the new Play:1s are apparently their suggested rear speakers. From the What Hi-Fi review:
Sonos hasn't forgotten home cinema fans, either. You can add two Play:1 speakers to a Sonos Playbar and Sub setup to act as satellites and create a surround-sound system for your movies. Previously Play:3 speakers were suggested for this purpose, but Sonos has told us it sees Play:1s as a much better fit, particularly because of their form factor and cheaper price tag.
The Play:1 has been getting good press, but is universally considered to be much better when run as a stereo pair.
-
Pretty close to pulling the trigger on the Play:1. It's nearly $300AUD landed over this way vs $205AUD when purchased from Amazon. Of course Amazon won't ship to AU, which means I need to figure out a proxy and the cost of shipping from there to AU. It's 6 pounds. Well, that's my internal monologue for you.
