Sonos Playbar

[RDTiling]

After a bit of deliberation, and some serious thought about Colour Republics suggestion, the cupboard under our stairs houses our boiler so there isn't a great deal of space for anything else, so I ended up with the Playbar on its own for now.

i have to say that the sound quality it produces is fantastic. I will add a sub to it at some point, but hopefully they will come out with a new and improved model and will bring the price of the current one down. I think my next addition will be a couple of Play 1's or Play 3's to act as back speakers as part of a surround sound setup.

 

[Colour Republic]

You only really need the sonos sub if you want the wireless feature. you can plug any sub in to the back of the playbar

 

[RDTiling]

I'll keep that in mind - the sonos sub is extortionate!

 

[thompsonbrown]

Have a B&W Zeppelin "great sound" only let down by needing an ipod.
24bit flac tracks sound great.

 

[Colour Republic]

I'll keep that in mind - the sonos sub is extortionate!

For the same money you could get a very nice high end sub.

My current set up is a pair of acoustic energy radiance 2's and a Kef PSW 1000 sub. All powered off a sonos amp. It says something when originally I powered off a great Yamaha, then a NAD amp only to switch to the sonos. The speakers are ££££ but the sub i've just checked on ebay is going for £60-80 which is steal! At that money it's worth getting and even as a stop gap that you throw away in a years time (not that you'd want to) you'll get your money's worth out of them.

Honestly you can get some bargins off ebay with second hand speakers (about the only bargins left on the damn site), before the AE's I had a very nice set of Missions as my main speakers. Worth a stupid amount of money new, yet I paid a fraction of the price just a few years after release. As long as they haven't been driven too hard it's almost silly to buy new.