Originally Posted by GuyNextDoor
Sonos might be bullet proof. But if you have more than four units around the house, you have to set the analogue line in to "compressed" (WMA 320 kbps). Or else you get nasty dropouts.?
Sorry Guy,
I can't argue with your experiences, but my Sonos experiences have been different and for about five years now

I use Lossless tracks only and a 17 Zone System around the house, with Six of those being strategically wired, to maximise on the coverage of the Mesh Network

Many times as a test, I've selected 17 different Lossless Tracks to play in each Zone independently. No issues what so ever. Even with the 32 Zones that Sonos is capable of, and using Lossless tracks of 900 to 1,000kbps each, you are still still only looking at a network bandwidth consumption of 32Mbps max. That is far less than most home networks should be capable of and also less than the 54Mbps that the Sonos Mesh Network is capable of (more with the ZP120 and ZP90 Zoneplayers)

I've also set up Six and Eight Zone systems at relative's / friends' houses, again using lossless and agin without the dropouts you refer

I would look again at the issue you refer to above, as the Sonos is more than capable of handling more than four zones IMHO



Last edited by Ronnie; 2010-08-20 21:01.
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