Sonos turns your house into an ipod

They should have an audiogon light for all these tech gadgets. This used to be an audiophile forum. Now it's Cnet. I have a mobile mp3 player and shure headphones, but don't tweak the hell out of it. It's sound is ok. And that's all to expect. It's not even comparible to a modest home system.

Audio distribution systems should be part of Audlogon. The Sono's music Server is great. The new Sono machine will transfer FLAG CD copies from your hard drive digitally into your DAC. Not only should the quality be better than via a CD transport; but it will enable you to search through all of your CD's from your couch.

I enjoyed Robm's "Now it's Cnet" comment--funny, but I agree with Hamburg. No reason these types of systems shouldn't be part of audiophile discussion. However, it'd be helpful if there a little more audiophile content to the posts about Sonos. The features of Sonos are undeniably cool, but how a little more specific description of the amp and DAC performance, compared to other hifi components, that you would buy into with Sonos?

As an aside, seems like Apple should get moving with a multi-remote-speaker version of iTunes.

seems like Apple should get moving with a multi-remote-speaker version of iTunes.

Well, speaking of the devil, it seems this improvement has come about with the Airport Express firmware update released earlier this month (and at least v6.0.2 of iTunes).

I have used the Sonos system in a house that I build 2 years ago.
The couple were in their late 50 's and they just loved it.
The system was dead easy to set up and the owner's wife can use it with no problems. My wife and I demoed the unit in store and she loved the remote control.
The build quality is first rate.
Sound was enjoyable, the owner used inexpensive in ceiling speakers and I can only comment to this extent.
The convienence and user interface with the Sonos was superb.
Is this HIFI ? I think for some people it might be, but please listen first.