Derek
Im looking to take advantage of the cyber monday deals today, and am looking for a portable speaker system that has very good base and would allow me to plug my ipod or ipad in without having to connect the speakers to a computer. What is the very best speaker system under $100 (cyber monday deals) with a lot of bass and good sound quality? Note: I am not looking for headphones
Answer
Jawbone Jambox wireless bluetooth speaker can be had for $119 on Amazon.com
I would think for the money Jawbone would be hard to beat. As you know you pay for bass, whatever you get will not raise eyebrows. A far better option would be to purchase a pair of Dayton Audio B652 bookshelf speakers for $43.83 ass to it LP-2020A Lepai Tripath Class-T Hi Fi Audio Mini Amp with power supply for $15.69. I assure you this would be the far better sounding set up under $100 anyone can imagine with money to spare. You may have to get a few cables for everything to come together but you would still be within your $100 budget. It will put a smile on your face every time you hear it.
Enjoy
Jawbone Jambox wireless bluetooth speaker can be had for $119 on Amazon.com
I would think for the money Jawbone would be hard to beat. As you know you pay for bass, whatever you get will not raise eyebrows. A far better option would be to purchase a pair of Dayton Audio B652 bookshelf speakers for $43.83 ass to it LP-2020A Lepai Tripath Class-T Hi Fi Audio Mini Amp with power supply for $15.69. I assure you this would be the far better sounding set up under $100 anyone can imagine with money to spare. You may have to get a few cables for everything to come together but you would still be within your $100 budget. It will put a smile on your face every time you hear it.
Enjoy
Installing SONOS a whole-house speaker system with wall mounted speakers?
Duncan
The wiring and installation would not be an issue as I am having a large renovation done on the both storeys of my house, and want to install a SONOS system throughout a bathroom, a living room and a kitchen, through Bose wall-mounted cube speakers. I would prefer to use my iPhone, iPod or Mac as a controller, and also have a wireless router located next to the living room. As the price of these SONOS systems are very expensive, I was wondering what components I would need and how much each would cost?
Answer
You're going to love the Sonos! I have four zone players, one dedicated for my home theatre and three more as sources into an existing distributed audio system. The iPhone works ok to control it but it seems the iPhone has trouble maintaining connection with the wi-fi, the iPad works much better for a controller.
Where are the wires for your in-wall speakers? All coming together in a closet some place? If so, you can just put all your Sonos players there. You will need the Sonos zone bridge to connect to your router with a wire, not wireless. Or you can connect one Sonos zone player to the router with a wire and it can function as the bridge. Personally I have a network HDD down stairs connected to the router and the Sonos Zone bridge also connected to the router. The zone players are all four upstairs in the control closet for the home theatre and distributed audio system. All that is wireless, only the Zone bridge needs to be connected to the router.
They make zone players with preamp output like mine and they also make them with built in amplifiers. In your case you may want to just get the ones with the amplifiers built in to connect to your existing wall speakers. Alternatively if all the speaker wires do come together at one place you could buy a multi channel amplifier and use it to drive the speakers and use the Sonos Zone player with preamp output. In my case I have two twelve channel amplifiers powering eleven zones. Two six zone controllers are connected to the two amplifiers. The controllers have eight sources, three of the sources are supplied by Sonos Zone players. I can have different music on the three Sonos Zone players and the distributed audio controllers can send any one of those three to any room. They can also send anything from the remaining five sources to any room. Eventually I would like to eliminate the old system and just get more Sonos Zone players and make the whole system Sonos but as you mentioned, Sonos is not cheap! The upgrade is on the wish list however:-)
Probably the best solution for you is to just use the Sonos players with amplifiers built in. Although, your Bose cubes have no bass and I do not believe the Sonos with the amplifier has any sort of subwoofer output. You may want to think about that. If you get the Sonos with preamp output you can route that through a crossover and send bass to a separate subwoofer. You may want to add wall mounted subwoofers to go with those cubes. In that case definitely get the Sonos players with preamp output. You may want to check, the Sonos with an amp may also have preamp out so in that case that would be ideal.
Have fun, you will be amazed at how well Sonos works!
mk
You're going to love the Sonos! I have four zone players, one dedicated for my home theatre and three more as sources into an existing distributed audio system. The iPhone works ok to control it but it seems the iPhone has trouble maintaining connection with the wi-fi, the iPad works much better for a controller.
Where are the wires for your in-wall speakers? All coming together in a closet some place? If so, you can just put all your Sonos players there. You will need the Sonos zone bridge to connect to your router with a wire, not wireless. Or you can connect one Sonos zone player to the router with a wire and it can function as the bridge. Personally I have a network HDD down stairs connected to the router and the Sonos Zone bridge also connected to the router. The zone players are all four upstairs in the control closet for the home theatre and distributed audio system. All that is wireless, only the Zone bridge needs to be connected to the router.
They make zone players with preamp output like mine and they also make them with built in amplifiers. In your case you may want to just get the ones with the amplifiers built in to connect to your existing wall speakers. Alternatively if all the speaker wires do come together at one place you could buy a multi channel amplifier and use it to drive the speakers and use the Sonos Zone player with preamp output. In my case I have two twelve channel amplifiers powering eleven zones. Two six zone controllers are connected to the two amplifiers. The controllers have eight sources, three of the sources are supplied by Sonos Zone players. I can have different music on the three Sonos Zone players and the distributed audio controllers can send any one of those three to any room. They can also send anything from the remaining five sources to any room. Eventually I would like to eliminate the old system and just get more Sonos Zone players and make the whole system Sonos but as you mentioned, Sonos is not cheap! The upgrade is on the wish list however:-)
Probably the best solution for you is to just use the Sonos players with amplifiers built in. Although, your Bose cubes have no bass and I do not believe the Sonos with the amplifier has any sort of subwoofer output. You may want to think about that. If you get the Sonos with preamp output you can route that through a crossover and send bass to a separate subwoofer. You may want to add wall mounted subwoofers to go with those cubes. In that case definitely get the Sonos players with preamp output. You may want to check, the Sonos with an amp may also have preamp out so in that case that would be ideal.
Have fun, you will be amazed at how well Sonos works!
mk
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