I've been a big fan of SONOS since buying my first ZonePlayer back in 2007. Since then I've basically filled the house with SONOS but mainly with ZonePlayers so I can connect my own Amps & Speakers. I do have a few of their modern 'all-in-one' PLAY units purely for convenience but I enjoy the freedom of combining other gear together more and just let SONOS do what it does best ie. stream content. Since their release there have been other products come & go however none of them seem to have offered everything SONOS does and none of them have been that much cheaper which is probably why none of them are still around.
I recently learnt about a very inexpensive Kickstarter product called MUZO Cobblestone: http://www.muzohifi.com/ It's very basic only offering a simple 3.5mm analog stereo output however it's also very inexpensive at around $59 USD and seems to offer what most 'normal' people would need to stream music from internet radio, cloud based systems, local NAS devices, Shared folders or even from the phone or tablet being used to control the device. It connects to your local network via LAN or Wifi too which is refreshing because it seems most new products are dropping hard-wired options. Adding more units to your network allows you to stream the same music into other zones or play different music in each zone simultaneously which is what SONOS has done so well at for the last 8+ years so it will be interesting to see how these perform.
There are a few reviews floating around however I decided to bite the bullet and buy two purely to see how good or bad they really are, especially with multi-zone performance. They have been touted as 'SONOS Killers' but of course that's already BS because they don't offer anywhere near the features of a SONOS CONNECT but of course they may still be very good at doing the absolute basics for the masses so once they arrive I'll come back here and post my findings.
I recently learnt about a very inexpensive Kickstarter product called MUZO Cobblestone: http://www.muzohifi.com/ It's very basic only offering a simple 3.5mm analog stereo output however it's also very inexpensive at around $59 USD and seems to offer what most 'normal' people would need to stream music from internet radio, cloud based systems, local NAS devices, Shared folders or even from the phone or tablet being used to control the device. It connects to your local network via LAN or Wifi too which is refreshing because it seems most new products are dropping hard-wired options. Adding more units to your network allows you to stream the same music into other zones or play different music in each zone simultaneously which is what SONOS has done so well at for the last 8+ years so it will be interesting to see how these perform.
There are a few reviews floating around however I decided to bite the bullet and buy two purely to see how good or bad they really are, especially with multi-zone performance. They have been touted as 'SONOS Killers' but of course that's already BS because they don't offer anywhere near the features of a SONOS CONNECT but of course they may still be very good at doing the absolute basics for the masses so once they arrive I'll come back here and post my findings.
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