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Sonos Playbar Advertises Wireless HiFi Simplicity and Expandability
Thu Apr 18, 2013 at 12:30 PM ETTags: Sonos (all tags)
Nine-speaker sound bar offers wireless expansion and streaming.
Sonos has built a product line with an emphasis on wireless capabilities. With the Playbar, Sonos is really offering a hybrid sound bar. One the one hand, the Playbar is ready to replace paltry TV speakers for booming stereo sound for anyone, even those users made dizzy by a traditional receiver set-up. On the other hand, the system supports wireless streaming for audio playback, wireless smartphone control, wireless/wired multi-room audio networking, and wireless expansion to a either a 3.1 or 5.1 set-up.
Sonos, Inc CEO John MacFarlane, "Sonos has transformed the way people listen to music throughout the home and now we’re bringing our wireless HiFi approach to home theater. PLAYBAR will change everything about the sound experience in your living room, bringing together amazing HiFi sound for your TV and wireless access to the world’s music in a radically simple way."
The nine-speaker set-up breaks down into six mid-woofers and three tweeters, and is designed to project sound in two positions. The bar can be set in front of the TV or rotated 90 degrees for mounting without compromising the angles speaker design.
The Playbar becomes a 3.1 system by adding The Sonos Wireless sub, and a 5.1 by adding a pair of Sonos Play:3 speakers. As a Sonos product, the potential for a multi-room audio set-up is just one-button and several purchases away from being realized.
Even at $699, the Playbar depends on a optical jack for deriving Dolby Digital from the TV. Older TV sets are notorious for only supporting Dolby 2.0, so prospective buyers with 2008 era TVs should be wary.
Still the Sonos' combination of audio quality, simple set-up and footprint, and advanced wireless capabilities may make the Sonos Playbar the best option for the right situations and family members.
The Sonos Playbar is available to order here.
Source: Sonos
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Sonos Launches a Soundbar for Wireless Multi-Room Audio
Tue Feb 12, 2013 at 02:00 PM ETTags: Sonos, Soundbars, Playbar (all tags)
You’ll find three tweeters and six mids for a total of nine drivers in all.
The folks at Sonos are known for one thing – whole home wireless audio. Everything they make is designed to let you listen to the music you want to, no matter where you are in your house. The new Playbar soundbar is a further extension of that which provides sound in a way that Sonos products previously didn’t.
Sonos has packed three tweeters and six midrange drivers into the Playbar, each of which is driven individually. You can control the volume via your TV remote or through the iPhone and Android Sonos apps. The Playbar runs $699 and will be available in March.
Source: TWICE
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Sonos Launches a Soundbar for Wireless Multi-Room Audio
Tue Feb 12, 2013 at 02:00 PM ETTags: Sonos, Soundbars, Playbar (all tags)
You’ll find three tweeters and six mids for a total of nine drivers in all.
The folks at Sonos are known for one thing – whole home wireless audio. Everything they make is designed to let you listen to the music you want to, no matter where you are in your house. The new Playbar soundbar is a further extension of that which provides sound in a way that Sonos products previously didn’t.
Sonos has packed three tweeters and six midrange drivers into the Playbar, each of which is driven individually. You can control the volume via your TV remote or through the iPhone and Android Sonos apps. The Playbar runs $699 and will be available in March.
Source: TWICE
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Sonos Releases the Play:3 Wireless Speaker
Fri Jul 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM ETTags: Sonos (all tags)
It's a nice cheap way to get on board with wireless music systems.
Wireless music systems have traditionally been the stuff of luxury. Not for the super-rich of course, but shelling out a grand or so just to enjoy your music in other rooms isn't exactly high on most priority lists.
Sonos has been moving the prices down on their wireless music systems and has reached a new level of affordability with the Play:3. It's a compact speaker that boasts three drivers, three Class-D amplifiers and a passive rear-firing bass radiator and it comes in at $299.
Using the Play:3 and the $49 Bridge, you can enjoy your music collection from anywhere in the house. Of course, you're not limited to music stored on your PC - you can grab tracks from Spotify, stream music from Pandora or listen to one of the seemingly limitless internet radio stations.
In addition to launching the Play:3, Sonos has updated their software with some improvements to the interface and compatibility with Android phones.
Source: eCoustics
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Sonos Has Plans For Home Theater
Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 03:00 PM ETTags: Sonos, Industry Trends (all tags)
Sonos, the company well known for its multi room music systems, has confirmed that it will soon be making a move towards the home theater.
Thomas Cullen, co founder of Sonos, spoke on the current state of home theater systems with a fairly simple question "Why is Home Theatre so complicated?"
With countless different connectors found on amplifiers today, it’s no wonder he’s looking for a solution. While the project is still in the natal stage, Cullen, in a conversation with Pocket Lint, did comment on a simple audio solution "We could pull the audio out via an Ethernet connection and make it better"
While they do plan on bringing something to market as early as two and a half years from now, no solid plans are yet in place. Curiously, they appear to have no desire to work with video, which seems like the next logical step.
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Sonos Has Plans For Home Theater
Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 03:00 PM ETTags: Sonos, Industry Trends (all tags)
Sonos, the company well known for its multi room music systems, has confirmed that it will soon be making a move towards the home theater.
Thomas Cullen, co founder of Sonos, spoke on the current state of home theater systems with a fairly simple question "Why is Home Theatre so complicated?"
With countless different connectors found on amplifiers today, it’s no wonder he’s looking for a solution. While the project is still in the natal stage, Cullen, in a conversation with Pocket Lint, did comment on a simple audio solution "We could pull the audio out via an Ethernet connection and make it better"
While they do plan on bringing something to market as early as two and a half years from now, no solid plans are yet in place. Curiously, they appear to have no desire to work with video, which seems like the next logical step.
See what people are saying about this story in our forums area, or check out other recent discussions.
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