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I'd take a NAD amp over anything that Sonos sells any day of the week, thanks.
by neoromantique 5y ago
I'd take a NAD amp over anything that Sonos sells any day of the week, thanks.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoand you can have my NAD amp over my dead body, though when I am dead, you can get it with a Slim Devices/Logitech Duet Receiver (Burr/Brown 24 bit DAC), which I'll also take over the current Sonos offerings.
- s17n 5y agoNAD already basically dropped Chromecast support, confirming the suspicion that buying their products would have been a bad idea for me. And any company whose business strategy is to sell to users of the Logitech Duet is going to go bankrupt.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoNAD & Chromecast? My NAD amplifier is about 22 years old. It doesn't know anything about networking, streaming or chrome. It's an amplifier.
- s17n 5y agoTraditional hifi gear is a niche market. In the past this was fine, but the reality is that niche markets won't support the development and maintenance of high quality software that interoperates well with the ever-evolving ecosystem of streaming services and protocols. Sonos is the one company that is playing by the rules of today's market, has actual software developers working for them, and cares about audio quality.
- acomjean 5y agoWe have a sony SRS-88 wireless home speaker. It's solid. But you can connect all sorts of ways. Airplay worked for a month, now it always sputters. My partner's Spotify seems to start and then send the stream straight to the device, so you can't control it from the original device anymore. We've found the best way is straight bluetooth, or through the mini stereo plug that we have wired to the back. https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/speakers-wireless-speakers/srs-x88 https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/speakers-wireless-s...