Whole home audio - new construction

I’m just putting Sonos everywhere and being done with it.

You’re going to get Sonos responses on here all day.

But if it’s new construction and the walls are open, wiring is much cheaper and fairly easy. You can run the speakers through a multi-zone receiver or even use a Sonos Connect:Amp (I think that’s the right one).

I’m doing this now and plan to use my receiver to control the audio.

I ran all my speaker wire myself. Took like 4 hours and saved a couple hundred bucks for installation. Buy the shielded wire on monoprice and Do it.

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Ease of use and iPhone control is Sonos. My wife uses it without any problem. I have a connect:amp running 4 in-ceiling speakers in the living room

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Can you expand on this a bit? How do you connect your in-ceiling speakers to the “Sonos setup”? In my mind, the “Sonos setup” requires physical Sonos speakers, not in-ceiling speakers made by say Sony or Bose.

Sonos Connect:Amp connects to wired speakers. The downside is that you need a Connect:Amp for each zone (basically each pair) of speakers.

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not in-ceiling speakers made by say Sony or Bose

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And please if you do this buy better in-ceiling speakers than the shite produced by these companies.

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But if it’s new construction and the walls are open, wiring is much cheaper and fairly easy. You can run the speakers through a multi-zone receiver or even use a Sonos Connect:Amp (I think that’s the right one).


Winner winner

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I would like to see a cost breakdown for receivers, wiring, speakers, and installation. That shite has got to be super expensive and practical for a very small segment of society.

Sonos will work for most anyone and is really inexpensive for what it does.

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But if it’s new construction and the walls are open, wiring is much cheaper and fairly easy. You can run the speakers through a multi-zone receiver or even use a Sonos Connect:Amp (I think that’s the right one).

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If you go this route, I cannot understate the importance of the MULTI ZONE receiver. I bought a single zone and ended up going back for multi zone.

For you guys saying sonos, I haven't looked into it. But looking at their product, is Alexa built into all sonos products or only those specified?

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My understanding is that the Sonos One has Alexa built in.

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sonos one has VOICE CONTROL built in. this is a subtle but important difference.

while alexa is the first/only voice control support out-of-the-box, the plan is that the ONE would support google home, siri, etc. going forward.

if you buy a regular sonos speaker and an alexa dot..then yes, you are limited to just alexa support going forward.

google home is 'kinda' supported now via yonami its still a hack but i would expect this to be added soon.

also surprised with how cozy sonos and apple are that apple voice control isn't enabled yet either.

So if you don't want voice control (because you're paranoid and don't want devices listening on my conversation) is Sonos out of the question? Or is there a sonos without voice control?

Asking for a friend.

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That shite has got to be super expensive

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Cuz Sonos is so cheap. $1400 for a sound bar and sub.