The ZonePlayer’s built-in Class D integrated amplifier (provided by First, let’s talk about the hardware of the Digital Music System, which consists of two types of components: ZonePlayers (each officially called a ZonePlayer ZP100) and Controllers (each formally known as a Sonos Controller CR100). The whole-house-music thing done right.īut I’m getting ahead of myself here. The result? The music you want in whatever rooms you want it. (A mesh network means that each access point is both a receiver and transmitter/repeater, so removing any one device won’t affect the rest of the network.) Each ZonePlayer can be controlled independently of the others, or you can sync all of them up for full-house entertainment. All over your house,” the Digital Music System aims to do just that by creating a mesh wireless network with access points-called ZonePlayers-in as many or as few rooms as you prefer. Sonos has released its new Digital Music System.
The market is ripe for a product that does the whole-house-music thing right. But each of these systems has significant flaws-an AirPort Express system can only play to a single room and has no screen the Roku units can’t sync across multiple rooms and the Squeezebox, which probably does the most right, still doesn’t make it easy to navigate large music collections. Several companies have attempted to bring this convergence to the masses, including Apple via its AirPort Express with AirTunes, Slim Devices with its Squeezebox, and Roku with its SoundBridge units.
0 kommentar(er)
