re: Home audio/video setup: How to wire and what equipment do I need?

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Sonos is OK for what it is, but it doesn't cut it compared to real audio quality

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Come on dude. Google audiophile Sonos and you get articles from every respected audiophile corner in the world saying the Sonos is pretty damn impressive.

Y'all keep rolling your eyes at Sonos and believing that word tsunami from tigerwise will deliver a trouble-free music music experience and somehow with sound listening about as subjective as telling the difference between 2-buck Chuck and a $100 bottle of wine that you really are getting a better music experience from all that spaghetti of avrs, cables and switch boxes.

To each their own but it's laughable to dismiss Sonos when 99.9% of the people on this site simply believe what the dinosaur HiFi sellers are feeding them and couldn't tell the difference between the 2 systems without being told which is better for them.

I understand. Every Sonos install gives tigerwise a few new gray hairs because it's hard to drag out those billable install hours and high margin cables when all you're doing is plugging in a few speakers and he knows he will likely never hear from them again.

With traditional "real" audio installs he can tweak their system and sell them a bucket full of high margin cables along with hours of installation charges while he crawls though attics and cuts holes in walls.

For every one Marco Esquandolas on this site there are 15,000 others who just want to blast the occasional Buffett song and pipe LSU game audio to their whole house. They will NEVER actually appreciate the so-called audio quality advantage of a traditional speaker setup but they will all get to appreciate the special hell of AVRs and zone 2 audio management.

The solution is in front of you. Stop drinking the koolaid and become installer free. When you add in the hassle and install fees with a traditional setup Sonos looks like a bargain even at retail.

There's a reason even 10+ year old Sonos products can still be sold at 99% of their original price. You can't say that about any AVR which is obsolete in 2 years. They're piled up at Goodwill. that's why tigerwise is recommending cheap onkyos these days because he knows this is true even for the $2,000 avrs and doesn't want to take that call from an angry client who just realized that $2,000 Yamaha AVR he installed 3 years ago can't pump 4K HDR to his new TV.

Eta my investment risk going with Sonos < $0. I can sell every last Sonos component in my house for huge margins tomorrow if I decided to throw it out. You'd be lucky to sell anything in that "premium" system for pennies on the dollar after it's installed. Think about that for a minute when you're getting ready to move forward.