Consumer, Multiroom Audio
Sonos Play:5 is Best Wi-Fi Music Player
Sonos has been an exceptional line of music players in our line of audio distribution products. These products are high quality, offer exceptional usability, and provide great sound quality for the category. The new Play:5 player is one the most popular products in the line. For good reason. The player offers Wi-fi connectivity, sounds great, and streams music from most any source you can imagine. This product works great in a stand alone music system or in a multiroom audio setup. You have many options with this versatile music player. Not only is the Play:5 a popular product, CNET named this product the best Wi-fi player of the year.
Wireless audio has been around for years, but in 2015, we saw a big spike in systems and products using Wi-Fi, instead of, or in addition to, Bluetooth. It makes sense, after all: Wi-Fi generally offers better sound quality than Bluetooth, while allowing the same basic convenience of using a smartphone, tablet or PC as a remote control to browse your music collection — or an online subscription or radio service such as Spotify or Pandora.
Sonos has long been the king of the hill in Wi-Fi audio, and it continues to go from strength to strength, with its focus on usability and support for online music services. The company’s new Play:5 speaker sounds great, and while it’s a little on the pricey side, it’s the best Sonos speaker yet by far. Meanwhile, Sonos added native support for Apple Music, bringing its total number of music services close to four dozen.
You can read the full article over at CNET.