My wife and I are moving from a condo to a house in a month and I’d like to set up a “proper” audio system on the property such that my wife can listen to one thing in her office, I can listen to something else in the garage, and my kids can listen to something in their rooms. The Sonos system is what I think I aspire to, but I haven’t looked into things for a dozen+ years so don’t really know what all is out there.
I currently have a bunch of Google pucks across the house, but would like better-quality audio than those provide.
Any alternatives to Sonos that have feature parity (or near-parity)?
I have a Sonos speaker from ikea and I hate how locked down it is. It won’t let you do a normal Bluetooth connection even though I guarantee the wifi modem in it has Bluetooth. You can only stream from apps that pay for sonos integration.
I wouldn’t have bought the speaker had I known how much of a walled garden the sonos ecosystem is. So I figured I should warn you to find out what limitations Sonos comes with before you start locking yourself in.
Ahh. I didn’t know IKEA sold Sonos stuff, or that it was locked down that much. Disappointing.
Costco also has Sonos