Sonos turns your house into an ipod

Audioeng,

On what do you base the comment "The quality of these stock Wi-Fi converters just isn't quite up to a good transport or a good USB converter, yet." As TCP/IP is a packet-based protocol and therefore immune to jitter, if the bits arrive, the transmission across the LAN is perfect, leaving only the conversion to and transmission of SPDIF as a potential issue.

You'll pardon my skepticism, but your comments have to be taken with a grain of salt as you have revealed a financial stake in upgrading these devices.

Johnmcelfresh, I agree.

It seems like everytime the Audioeng posts a reply on this forum, it turns into a sales pitch for one of his existing or future products/services.

Johnmcelfresh - I mod practically all of these and sell my own USB converters, so I know what they all sound like stock. It's not that the strategy of the Wi-Fi players is no good, it's the implementations that are lacking.

The question was asked "who is modding the Sonos", so I responded.

I can't understand why anyone would knock hard drive based systems. If you can get sound quality equality why deal with hundreds/thousands of cds/lps when you can easily navigate disc stored media. I'm thinking those who knock can't do it.

Just bought a Buff Tech Terastation Pro II and a bunch of Sonos zoneplayers. I agree with Jamesw20 above-- this is so user friendly and easy to set up, that I am going totally hard drive with my music library. I rip Apple Lossless to the hard drive and run the coaxial out of the Sonos to my Sim Audio CD player's digital in -- for my nice two channel system. For the rest of the house (six zones so far) I use the Sonos ZP100s to run the in wall speakers (or a ZP80 to feed the home theater processor and amps). It's so slick that my wife is using it-- a major accomplishment. The sound quality in my two channel rig is IDENTICAL to playing a CD in the Sim Audio SuperNova Evolution CD player. Sweet.