Why the Sonos Rocks (part 1)
At the risk of having my audiophile card revoked, let me extol some virtues about a system that "gets it," for family audio - whole house audio - but even more importantly as a portal for music discovery. Can I tell you that the Sonos sounds great (we currently own a Play:5 , Sub , and 2 Connects ), and is simple enough that everyone in the family enjoys it? Once you attach a few services to it (Spotify, MOG, Pandora) that people listen to and discover more music than you'd expect. We have had so much fun over the last year that I believe our music-awareness kicked it up a notch. In fact we're splitting this into 2 parts - part 1 (this one) describing in big hand-waves, the system, and the next one (part 2) when you unleash a family with a history of practical jokes upon Sonos with every family member in the household having a remote control for it .... Has it replaced the main system? No. Could it? No way. Does it sound great? Yes. What's my major b...