I have been thinking for a while about how to get our music streamed around the house without ripping up all the floorboards etc and went into our local Sevenoaks HiFi for advice. They showed me the Sonos system and I was blown away to put it mildly!
The Sonos uses your existing music files and streams them wirelessly around your house to a series of Zoneplayers. The Zoneplayer can be amplified (so you just plug in speakers to make it work), un-amplified (so you plug it into an existing audio set up), or even better a one stop box much like a Bose box that has speakers and all. One mains plug and you are up and running.
You can pay about £200 for the dedicated Sonos controller, but what really swung it for me is the App to run the thing which I can put on any Touch or iPhone - brilliant!
Setting it up was a breeze - you plug one Zoneplayer into your computer router, and wire up the others where you want them around the house. After loading the software onto your computer, you point the Sonos software at your music and away you go.
The neat part of it is also that you can keep you music on a NAS and it will play it from there, so no need to have the main PC running in the house, just the NAS. It is also format free, so will play iTunes, Widows or whatever.
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