Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 61Apr 29, 2017 7:47 pm Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 62May 07, 2017 3:13 pm I bought a Sonos Play:1 speaker today so I can give it a test before I decide if I want to go with a Sonos system for the theatre room once the house is built. I figure if I like it then great, and if I don't then it can't hurt to have a speaker that I can just put in the living area and we can just stream music to it. It's only $300 bucks and I get to see if I'm going to like the product or not before I spend $3,000 on completing the system. If it does work out then more than likely I will get a few extra Play:1's to put in various rooms as well as the actual theatre system. In my hour or so of playing with it so far it seems decent and quite easy to get setup but I haven't been able to crank the system up as I have a small child having his afternoon nap! The lack of built in support for Youtube is annoying, as is having to have Spotify Premium but there seem to be plenty of other alternatives for the latter at least, and apparently there are workarounds for Youtube. It looks promising so far and at the least isn't a definite no! Building a Kew 28 with Porter Davis Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 63May 07, 2017 4:02 pm Hurrow It looks promising so far and at the least isn't a definite no! I bought my first in 2006, so have been using Sonos for a long time. If you need any questions answered, give us a shout. Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 64May 07, 2017 5:41 pm Hurrow I bought a Sonos Play:1 speaker today so I can give it a test before I decide if I want to go with a Sonos system for the theatre room once the house is built. I figure if I like it then great, and if I don't then it can't hurt to have a speaker that I can just put in the living area and we can just stream music to it. It's only $300 bucks and I get to see if I'm going to like the product or not before I spend $3,000 on completing the system. If it does work out then more than likely I will get a few extra Play:1's to put in various rooms as well as the actual theatre system. In my hour or so of playing with it so far it seems decent and quite easy to get setup but I haven't been able to crank the system up as I have a small child having his afternoon nap! The lack of built in support for Youtube is annoying, as is having to have Spotify Premium but there seem to be plenty of other alternatives for the latter at least, and apparently there are workarounds for Youtube. It looks promising so far and at the least isn't a definite no! If you have a dedicated home theatre room, then I'd suggest getting a dedicated speaker system and an AVR which offers almost everything that Sonos offers, but works out more economical when you are considering a 5.1 style setup. Of course, it would help if you have pre-wired for this, but nothing you can't fix later if you want to TLC. Sonos is great for living room setups IMO and also work well for multi-room audio.. Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 65May 07, 2017 6:08 pm sinbox Hurrow I bought a Sonos Play:1 speaker today so I can give it a test before I decide if I want to go with a Sonos system for the theatre room once the house is built. I figure if I like it then great, and if I don't then it can't hurt to have a speaker that I can just put in the living area and we can just stream music to it. It's only $300 bucks and I get to see if I'm going to like the product or not before I spend $3,000 on completing the system. If it does work out then more than likely I will get a few extra Play:1's to put in various rooms as well as the actual theatre system. In my hour or so of playing with it so far it seems decent and quite easy to get setup but I haven't been able to crank the system up as I have a small child having his afternoon nap! The lack of built in support for Youtube is annoying, as is having to have Spotify Premium but there seem to be plenty of other alternatives for the latter at least, and apparently there are workarounds for Youtube. It looks promising so far and at the least isn't a definite no! If you have a dedicated home theatre room, then I'd suggest getting a dedicated speaker system and an AVR which offers almost everything that Sonos offers, but works out more economical when you are considering a 5.1 style setup. Of course, it would help if you have pre-wired for this, but nothing you can't fix later if you want to TLC. Sonos is great for living room setups IMO and also work well for multi-room audio.. I'm thinking a Sonos system is going to cost me around $2,600, I'm not sure what sort of quality 5.1 setup with and AVR that I could get for that price particularly looking at installation as well? Building a Kew 28 with Porter Davis Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 66May 10, 2017 7:28 pm I have just visited the Sonos shop today. He gave me a rough quote for the 5.1, two wired speakers in the alfresco, soundbar in the lounge with 3 other speakers in the ceiling around the house for music was around $10500. Does that sound reasonable? @Madora Dreamer Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 67May 10, 2017 8:12 pm Madora Dreamer I have just visited the Sonos shop today. He gave me a rough quote for the 5.1, two wired speakers in the alfresco, soundbar in the lounge with 3 other speakers in the ceiling around the house for music was around $10500. Does that sound reasonable? Are the 3 other speakers pairs or singles. If pairs, the package looks like this: Playbar x 2 Sub x 1 Play:1 x 2 Connect:Amp x 4 Bookshelf speakers x 2 Ceiling speakers x 6 Does that look about right? Just out of interest, why do you want just a Playbar in lounge? The RRP of just the Sonos components is $6591, leaving just under $4000 for the non-Sonos speakers, which is high unless they are very good speakers. Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 68May 10, 2017 8:30 pm 5.1 system 1 sound bar 2 x alfresco speakers middle size 1x ceiling speaker in kitchen 1 x ceiling speaker in dining room 1 x ceiling speaker in master suite He suggested that the sound bar in the lounge should be enough for the Tv then the 3 ceiling speakers plus the soundbar for streaming music. @Madora Dreamer Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 69May 10, 2017 9:34 pm Madora Dreamer 5.1 system 1 sound bar 2 x alfresco speakers middle size 1x ceiling speaker in kitchen 1 x ceiling speaker in dining room 1 x ceiling speaker in master suite He suggested that the sound bar in the lounge should be enough for the Tv then the 3 ceiling speakers plus the soundbar for streaming music. Sorry, but I'm not fully following. Sonos does not make ceiling speakers, so how are these speakers being powered; and when you say one, do you mean just one mono speaker, or a pair in stereo? Also, do you have two TVs, one with the 5.1 system attached and another with just the Playbar? Finally, what is powering the alfresco speakers, or are these Sonos speakers, like the Play:3 or Play:5? Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 70May 10, 2017 10:56 pm Sorry I am not sure about the ceiling speakers then. He had some in the display and switched them on and off, I just assumed they were Sonos. The speakers need speaker wires running through the ceiling, I have no idea how they are powered, he didn't say. I have one tv which will be connected with the surround sound. The other tv will just have a soundbar. He showed us outdoor speakers, again I assumed they were Sonos. They came in packs of 2 for $899. They were suitable for outdoors so not the play 3 or 5. @Madora Dreamer Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you need? 71May 10, 2017 11:16 pm Without knowing what products you were quoted on I'm afraid no one will be able to tell you whether the price was reasonable. I suggest you find out and get back to us.
Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 72May 10, 2017 11:17 pm I have just visited the shop website. I have screen shot the speakers which are obviously not sonos. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ . The middle speakers are for the alfresco. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ These are similar to what he showed me. @Madora Dreamer Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 73May 11, 2017 12:22 am Thanks for your responses. I have sent my plans through and will get a proper quote so will see then what I will be up for. I will let you know. @Madora Dreamer Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 74May 11, 2017 12:36 pm https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/1 ... ot_botnet/ Anything that using uPnP technology to be 'easier' to use and discover is basically at risk of hijacking for either DDoS services, or spying on you. Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 75May 12, 2017 9:17 am Hurrow I'm thinking a Sonos system is going to cost me around $2,600, I'm not sure what sort of quality 5.1 setup with and AVR that I could get for that price particularly looking at installation as well? At the risk of being flamed by anti-BOSE'ers, you can get a pretty good Acoustimass 10 5.1 set for about $1500, allowing $1000 for a fairly good AVR. Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 76May 12, 2017 10:01 am 1960sModernistHome Hurrow I'm thinking a Sonos system is going to cost me around $2,600, I'm not sure what sort of quality 5.1 setup with and AVR that I could get for that price particularly looking at installation as well? At the risk of being flamed by anti-BOSE'ers, you can get a pretty good Acoustimass 10 5.1 set for about $1500, allowing $1000 for a fairly good AVR. I've got Bose QC-30 headphones so I'm not anti-Bose at least! The main issues for me with having a system like that would be that it's wired which means I would either need to drill a bunch of holes in the walls or more likely pay someone to do it for me or have visible wires, it probably can't really be intergrated with other speakers around the house, and I'd need to buy an AV receiver as well. In which case I'm basically forking out around the same sort of money (or more including installation) as for a Sonos system which doesn't have those issues. I'm open for reasons why it would make more sense though, or if the issues I have can be negated? Building a Kew 28 with Porter Davis Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 77May 13, 2017 10:43 am Hurrow 1960sModernistHome Hurrow I'm thinking a Sonos system is going to cost me around $2,600, I'm not sure what sort of quality 5.1 setup with and AVR that I could get for that price particularly looking at installation as well? At the risk of being flamed by anti-BOSE'ers, you can get a pretty good Acoustimass 10 5.1 set for about $1500, allowing $1000 for a fairly good AVR. I've got Bose QC-30 headphones so I'm not anti-Bose at least! The main issues for me with having a system like that would be that it's wired which means I would either need to drill a bunch of holes in the walls or more likely pay someone to do it for me or have visible wires, it probably can't really be intergrated with other speakers around the house, and I'd need to buy an AV receiver as well. In which case I'm basically forking out around the same sort of money (or more including installation) as for a Sonos system which doesn't have those issues. I'm open for reasons why it would make more sense though, or if the issues I have can be negated? Hi Hurrow, the reason people go for AVR's is so that they can plug in all their AV components to it and have it process them & send the signal back to the (possibly multiple Zones) display via a single HDMI cable. If you don't have many components (eg if all you do is stream), and are happy to having dedicated power points for each of your Sonos speakers, then you should be ok. I personally am going in for 2-3 Zones for Audio/Video, all powered by a single AVR, and all my AV components will be hidden away in my AV Closet under stairs. Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 78May 13, 2017 12:48 pm sinbox Hi Hurrow, the reason people go for AVR's is so that they can plug in all their AV components to it and have it process them & send the signal back to the (possibly multiple Zones) display via a single HDMI cable. If you don't have many components (eg if all you do is stream), and are happy to having dedicated power points for each of your Sonos speakers, then you should be ok. I personally am going in for 2-3 Zones for Audio/Video, all powered by a single AVR, and all my AV components will be hidden away in my AV Closet under stairs. What AV components are you using? IMHO, unless you are already invested, there are ways of achieving the same thing with a new Sonos setup without the AVR. Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 79May 13, 2017 1:36 pm arcadelt sinbox Hi Hurrow, the reason people go for AVR's is so that they can plug in all their AV components to it and have it process them & send the signal back to the (possibly multiple Zones) display via a single HDMI cable. If you don't have many components (eg if all you do is stream), and are happy to having dedicated power points for each of your Sonos speakers, then you should be ok. I personally am going in for 2-3 Zones for Audio/Video, all powered by a single AVR, and all my AV components will be hidden away in my AV Closet under stairs. What AV components are you using? IMHO, unless you are already invested, there are ways of achieving the same thing with a new Sonos setup without the AVR. At the moment apart from one Play:1 speaker I have absolutely zero components. What I will be looking to do with the home theater system is have a TV, DVD player, music streaming, probably Pay TV and maybe Xbox or PS4 ideally all running through the surround sound system. Is it possible to do this with Sonos or would I need something different. Building a Kew 28 with Porter Davis Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 80May 13, 2017 1:36 pm arcadelt sinbox Hi Hurrow, the reason people go for AVR's is so that they can plug in all their AV components to it and have it process them & send the signal back to the (possibly multiple Zones) display via a single HDMI cable. If you don't have many components (eg if all you do is stream), and are happy to having dedicated power points for each of your Sonos speakers, then you should be ok. I personally am going in for 2-3 Zones for Audio/Video, all powered by a single AVR, and all my AV components will be hidden away in my AV Closet under stairs. What AV components are you using? IMHO, unless you are already invested, there are ways of achieving the same thing with a new Sonos setup without the AVR. Currently, HTPC, Apple TV, Blu-Ray player, plus a couple of other Media Players. 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