I've had a Sonos system since I bought my house and I love it to bits - 2 wireless players on the ground floor, each with their own speakers, linked wirelessly to my network which has my 100Gb or so of MP3s on it. Stream any of your music instantly, at the touch of a button - and have different music per player, or synced - a great product.
But... their controller (CR100) sucks. Actually it probably was good when released, but when I got round to buying Sonos, the worls had moved on and it just seemed clunky, heavy and MASSIVE. The scrollwheel meant that it took forever to actually type anything in.
The MASSIVE CR100
Then Sonos launched the free iPhone app controller, which - it has to be said - is an absolute dream. I (genuinely) thought to myself last night, as I walked in the house, paused my music on the iPhone, fired up the Sonos app and played music in my kitchen straight away. I'm that much of a geek.
The excellent Sonos iPhone app
Sonos have now launched a new controller - a touch screen hybrid of the original CR100 and the wondeful iPhone app - CR 200. Anyone considering a Sonos will love this - and the fact that Sonos keep releasing updates and apps to their customer base for free is rarely-found excellence.
The new CR200 touch screen Sonos controller
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